The Clinical journal of pain
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Pain assessment is essential to tailor intensive care of neonates. The present focus is on acute procedural pain; assessment of pain of longer duration remains a challenge. We therefore tested a modified version of the COMFORT-behavior scale-named COMFORTneo-for its psychometric qualities in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit setting. ⋯ The COMFORTneo showed preliminary reliability. No major differences were found in cut-off values for low birth weight, small for gestational age, neurologic impairment risk levels, or sex. Multicenter studies should focus on establishing concurrent validity with other instruments in a patient group with a high probability of ongoing pain.
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The Internet is an increasingly popular information resource for patients. Patients with chronic pain are a subsection of the community who are likely to seek information about their condition, but previously little was known about the quality of information they may encounter during an Internet search. ⋯ Although we cannot determine whether patients accurately interpret the quality of websites, our study confirms that good quality information about chronic pain is unlikely to be retrieved by our patients on the Internet.