Vaccine-related pain: Randomised controlled trial of two injection techniques

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1105-1108

  Ipp, Moshe ^a,b   Taddio, Anna ^b   Sam, Jonathan ^c   Goldbach, Morton ^a   Parkin, Patricia C ^b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; INJECTION PAIN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

CRYING; DIPHTHERIA-TETANUS-ACELLULAR PERTUSSIS VACCINES; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS VACCINES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SUCTION; TIME FACTORS; VACCINES, COMBINED;

EID: 36849066262     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2007.118695     Document Type: Article

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