Neonatal pain response to heel stick vs venepuncture for routine blood sampling

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1997, Pages

  Shah, Vibhuti S ^a,b   Taddio, Anna ^a   Bennett, Sian ^a   Speidel, Brian D ^a  

^a SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood sampling; Heel stick; Pain response; Venepuncture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; VASCULAR ACCESS; VEIN PUNCTURE;

EID: 0031410399     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.77.2.F143     Document Type: Article

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