Pain assessment in children undergoing venipuncture: The Wong-Baker faces scale versus skin conductance fluctuations

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Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Savino, Francesco ^a   Vagliano, Liliana ^b   Ceratto, Simone ^a   Viviani, Fabio ^a   Miniero, Roberto ^c   Ricceri, Fulvio ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c Magna Grecia University   (Italy)

^d Human Genetics Foundation   (Italy)

Author keywords

Children; Pain assessment; Skin conductance; Venipuncture; Wong Baker scale

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACES PAIN SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; VEIN PUNCTURE;

EID: 84877119670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.37     Document Type: Article

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