The development of a multidimensional pain assessment scale for critically ill preverbal children
Adequate pain assessment is a pre-requisite for appropriate pain management. If pain remains untreated in critically ill young children, it can have dramatic short- and long-term consequences on their health and development. Apart from humanitarian reasons, the assessment of pain has been recognised...
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| Language: | English |
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Curtin University
2006
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1524 |