Measurement of Pain in Infants and Children. Progress in Pain Management and Research Volume 10

From: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Measurement of Pain in Infants and Children. Progress in Pain Management and Research Volume 10. Edited by G. A. Finley, P J. McGrath; IASP Press, 909 NE 43rd Street, Suite 306, Seattle, WA 98105, U.S.A.; $U.S.67.00; 156 x 240 mm; pp. 210.

This book will be useful for researchers in paediatric pain. It is based on a forum held in late 1996 involving many well known contributors. They provide an excellent overview of the rather glacial progress that has been made in the measurement of pain in infants and children.

The area is dogged by methodological problems. The core of the problem is the ...

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