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How Well Do Clinical Pain Assessment Tools Reflect Pain in Infants?

BACKGROUND: Pain in infancy is poorly understood, and medical staff often have difficulty assessing whether an infant is in pain. Current pain assessment tools rely on behavioural and physiological measures, such as change in facial expression, which may not accurately reflect pain experience. Our a...

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Autores principales: Slater, Rebeccah, Cantarella, Anne, Franck, Linda, Meek, Judith, Fitzgerald, Maria
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2504041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18578562
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050129