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

<h4>Background</h4>Pain in infancy is poorly understood, and medical staff often have difficulty assessing whether an infant is in pain. Current pain assessment tools rely on behavioural and physiological measures, such as change in facial expression, which may not accurately reflect pai...

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Main Authors: Rebeccah Slater, Anne Cantarella, Linda Franck, Judith Meek, Maria Fitzgerald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-06-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050129&type=printable
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