Comparison of Four Pain Scales in Children With Acute Abdominal Pain in a Pediatric Emergency Department

Bailey, Benoît; Bergeron, Sylvie; Gravel, Jocelyn; Daoust, Raoul

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.04.021

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“…The literature is largely inconsistent on equivalency among self-report pain scales for assessing children's acute pain. While some authors report a lack of agreement across scales (16,37), others find them to be equivalent (17,38). von Baeyer (32) recently argued cogently for adoption of more liberal criteria for determining agreement between self report of children's pain -advocating for use of the 80% CI versus the 95% CI.…”

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confidence: 99%

Assessing Pain Intensity in Children with Chronic Pain: Convergent and Discriminant Validity of The 0 To 10 Numerical Rating Scale in Clinical Practice

Ruskin

Lalloo

Amaria

et al. 2014

Pain Research and Management

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Assessing Pain Intensity in Children with Chronic Pain: Convergent and Discriminant Validity of The 0 To 10 Numerical Rating Scale in Clinical Practice

Ruskin

Lalloo

Amaria

et al. 2014

Pain Research and Management

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“…The Color Analog Scale has been shown to be reliable and valid in pain contexts in children as young as 5 years 28–30. Generally, visual analog scales have also been used in diverse nonpain applications.…”

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Somatosensory test responses in children with growing pains

Pathirana

Champion²,

Jaaniste³

et al. 2011

JPR

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PurposeTo further the understanding of growing pains (GP), in particular, the nature of this pain disorder.MethodsThis study included 33 children aged 5–12 years who met criteria for GP (cases) and 29 children without GP of similar age and sex (controls). Nineteen controls were siblings of cases. GP was diagnosed by standard consensus questionnaires. A questionnaire addressed characteristics of the pain and family history of GP. Evidence for peripheral neuropathic disorder was tested by somatosensory testing and provocation tests of peripheral nerves. Somatosensory testing by a blinded researcher involved threshold determination and/or response magnitude to nonpainful stimuli including touch, dynamic brush, cold, vibration, and deep pressure applied to limb and abdominal sites.ResultsDistributional, temporal, and quality characteristics of the pain were in accordance with published descriptions. There was no indication of primary musculoskeletal disorder. No evidence was found that GP is a peripheral neuropathic pain syndrome. There were minor but statistically significantly increased responses to cutaneous cold, vibration, and to deep pressure stimuli in cases compared to controls, evident in a wider distribution than the symptomatic lower limbs.ConclusionGP is a regional pain syndrome with evidence in this study of mild widespread disorder of somatosensory processing.

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“…The administration of morphine was stopped when the patient was on the lowest third of the scale. The reliability and validity of the VAS as a measure of pain has been established previously [2,6] . All patients were discharged from the hospital when fully mobilised to their habitual state and full pain control without morphine was achieved.…”

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confidence: 99%

Paediatric Robotic Surgery in Clinical Practice: A Cost Analysis

2009

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The introduction of robotic assistance into surgical practice involves increased in-hospital costs, mainly because of the cost of the new instruments. This increase in cost can be offset by the shorter hospital stay compared to open surgery. After laparoscopic surgery the hospital stay is about the same as after operations performed with robotic assistance. Cheaper instruments and shorter operating time will make robotic surgery cost efficient in the future. The benefit for the patients is less trauma due to the use of minimally invasive surgery and a shorter hospital stay. Thus, the higher initial costs may be considered worthwhile.

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Comparison of Four Pain Scales in Children With Acute Abdominal Pain in a Pediatric Emergency Department

Cited by 66 publications

References 15 publications

Assessing Pain Intensity in Children with Chronic Pain: Convergent and Discriminant Validity of The 0 To 10 Numerical Rating Scale in Clinical Practice

Assessing Pain Intensity in Children with Chronic Pain: Convergent and Discriminant Validity of The 0 To 10 Numerical Rating Scale in Clinical Practice

Somatosensory test responses in children with growing pains

Paediatric Robotic Surgery in Clinical Practice: A Cost Analysis

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