Validity of behavioral and physiologic parameters for acute pain assessment of term newborn infants

CONTEXT: The subjectivity of pain causes enormous difficulties in evaluating neonatal pain with a single, practical and easy-to-apply tool. Pain evaluation in the neonatal period should be performed by valid, safe, useful and feasible methods. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the validity of the Neonatal Faci...

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Main Authors: Andrea Lübe de S Thiago Pereira, Ruth Guinsburg, Maria Fernanda Branco de Almeida, Ana Cristina Monteiro, Amélia Miyashiro Nunes dos Santos, Benjamin Israel Kopelman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Paulista de Medicina 1999-03-01
Series:São Paulo Medical Journal
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31801999000200005&lng=en&tlng=en