Acute pain management in children: a survey of Italian pediatricians.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Current guidelines recommend assessing and relieving pain in all children and in all instances; yet, in clinical practice, management is frequently suboptimal. We investigated the attitude of Italian family pediatricians towards the evaluation and treatment of different types of acute pain in children aged 7-12 years.

Methods

This is a cross-sectional study based on a 17-question survey accessible online from October 2017 to October 2018. Responders had to describe cases of children suffering from any type of acute pain among headache, sore throat, musculoskeletal/post-traumatic pain, and earache. Children's characteristics, pain assessment modalities and therapeutic approaches were queried. The following tests were used: Z-proportion to evaluate the distribution

SUBMITTER: Marseglia GL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6892238 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature