Non-nutritive sucking relieves pain for preterm infants during heel stick procedures in Taiwan

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 19-20, 2010, Pages 2741-2751

  Liaw, Jen Jiuan ^a   Yang, Luke ^b   Ti, Yin ^c   Blackburn, Susan Tucker ^d   Chang, Yue Cune ^e   Sun, Liang Wen ^c  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b HSUAN CHUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Non nutritive sucking; Nursing; Pain measures; Preterm infants; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; HEEL; HUMAN; NEWBORN; PAIN; PREMATURITY; TAIWAN;

BREAST FEEDING; HEEL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; PAIN; TAIWAN;

EID: 77956801333     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03300.x     Document Type: Article

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