Background During 2011-2013, women from a municipality in Denmark who were born in 1936, 1941, 1946 or 1951 were invited to cardiovascular screening (n = 1984); of those, ten nonattendees were interviewed about their perspectives on cardiovascular screening. The interviews were re-analysed to gain a deeper understanding of their motives for viewing screening as personally irrelevant. A salutogenic perspective formed the premise for the data analysis. Additional Files Additional le 1. This le contains the checklist 'The COnsolidated criteria for REporting Qualitative research (COREQ): a 32-item checklist for interviews and focus group'.

SummaryBackground Neonates who are in pain or are stressed during care in the intensive care unit (ICU) are often given sedation or analgesia. We investigated the current use of sedation or analgesia in neonatal ICUs (NICUs) in European countries.

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Aim: Continuous pain occurs routinely, even after invasive procedures, or inflammation and surgery, but clinical practices associated with assessments of continuous pain remain unknown.Methods: A prospective cohort study in 243 neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) from 18 European countries recorded the frequency of pain assessments, use of mechanical ventilation, sedation, analgesia or neuromuscular blockade for each neonate for up to 28 days after NICU admission.

The nurses used versatile nonpharmacological methods in children's postoperative pain relief, although some defects could be observed. More research is needed on the methods used by nurses to relieve children's pain in different patient groups and the factors which hinder or promote nurses' use of pain alleviation methods in the clinical practice.