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How well do clinical pain assessment tools reflect pain in infants?
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BACKGROUND: 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 pain experience. Our ability to measure cortical pain responses in young infants gives us the first opportunity to evaluate pain assessment tools with respect to the sensory input and establish whether the resultant pai...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050129
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS Medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- Article: e129
- Publication date:
- 2008-06-05
- DOI:
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1549-1676
- ISSN:
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1549-1277
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uuid:0600abd3-ccb5-4979-97b2-c153761af07e
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309082
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- pubs:309082
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- English
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- Slater et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2008
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- Copyright © 2008 Slater et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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