Abstract:Objective: to evaluate the frequency of painful procedures that premature newborns were submitted to during their stay in a NICU. Method: this is about an analytical and exploratory cross-sectional study. The population was composed of 106 moderately premature newborns, hospitalized during the period from August 3 to August 5 in a private hospital in Salvador (BA), Brazil. The variables were: sex of the newborn, gestational age, hospitalization duration, birth weight and length, Apgar Score in the first and fi… Show more
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