Abstract:The prevalence of pediatric pain, either related to the child's hospital visit or as a result of diagnostic and/or therapeutical interventions, is of primordial importance in pediatric emergency departments (PEDs).
In this study, we evaluate the evolution of pain assessment and management in Portuguese PEDs through eleven years. To this end, we prepared a questionnaire addressed to head physicians of 45 the Portuguese PEDs in 2007 and compared the responses to those provided in 2018, where we also posed these… Show more
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