How well do clinical pain assessment tools reflect pain in infants?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 0928-0933

  Slater, Rebeccah ^a   Cantarella, Anne ^b   Franck, Linda ^c   Meek, Judith ^b   Fitzgerald, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Napolitano and Prof David)   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFANT; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PREMATURE INFANT PAIN PROFILE; SCORING SYSTEM; STIMULUS; BRAIN CORTEX; CHILD BEHAVIOR; EVALUATION; HEEL; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; STANDARD;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HEEL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INFANT, NEWBORN; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 46349093670     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050129     Document Type: Article

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