Validation of self-report pain scales in children

Pediatrics

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Tsze, Daniel S ^a,e   Von Baeyer, Carl L ^b,c   Bulloch, Blake ^d   Dayan, Peter S ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Department of Pediatrics   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Color Analog Scale (CAS); Emergency department; Ethnicity; Faces Pain Scale Revised (FPS R); Language; Pain; Pain scale; Pediatric; Race; Reliability; Sex; Validity

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; COLOR ANALOG SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNICITY; FACES PAIN SCALE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 84885116855     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2013-1509     Document Type: Article

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