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Currently used pain assessment tools may be underestimating the pain response in infants

06.24.2008 | 7:12:00 pm | Posted by Medical News
Dr Slater and colleagues (University College London, UK) studied the association between cortical pain responses in young infants and currently used pain assessment tools which are based on behavioural and physiological measures, such as change in facial expression....
 
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