Characteristics of Opioid Prescriptions in 2009

Ing data at all or pooling data using network meta-analysis, we chose the latter; indeed network meta-analysis has been shown to potentially give more reliable results because of the integration of additional information. 5,6Although studies included in our review were from different sources, they were all randomized controlled trials and hence contrasts between treatment groups within each study should be comparable.In addition, we focused only on CP/CPPS categories IIIA and IIIB to reduce heterogeneity due to disease severity and focused on outcomes measured using National Institutes of Health Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index scales to reduce heterogeneity due to measurement error.Nevertheless, we explored…