Jornal de pediatria
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Jornal de pediatria · Jan 2016
Multicenter Study Observational StudyPainful procedures and analgesia in the NICU: what has changed in the medical perception and practice in a ten-year period?
To compare the use of analgesia versus neonatologists' perception regarding analgesic use in painful procedures in the years 2001, 2006, and 2011. ⋯ Despite an increase in the medical perception of neonatal pain and in analgesic use during painful procedures, the gap between clinical practice and neonatologist perception of analgesia need did not change during the ten-year period.