Pain Management Nursing
Volume 8, Issue 2 , Pages 72-76 , June 2007

Accuracy of Parental-Global-Impression of Children’s Acute Pain

  • Rachel Yaffa Zisk, PhD, RN, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, Connecticut
    • Center for the Advancement of Perioperative Health®, the Departments of Anesthesiology, Pediatrics, and Child Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
    • Henrietta Szold School of Nursing, Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical Organization, Jerusalem, Israel.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence and reprint requests to Rachel Yaffa Zisk, PhD, RN, MPH, Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem, POB 12000, Jerusalem, 91120, Israel.
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  • Margaret Grey, DrPH, RN, FAAN

      Affiliations

    • Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, Connecticut
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  • Barbara Medoff-Cooper, PhD, RN, FAAN

      Affiliations

    • University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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  • Zeev N. Kain, MD, MBA

      Affiliations

    • Center for the Advancement of Perioperative Health®, the Departments of Anesthesiology, Pediatrics, and Child Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut

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 This research was partially funded by a research grant from Sigma Theta Tau, Xi chapter, and by postdoctoral support at the Yale School of Nursing (T32NR008346). Z. N. K. is partially funded by a grant from the National Institute of Child and Health Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland (NIH-2R01HD037007-04A1).

PII: S1524-9042(07)00041-0

doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2007.03.002

Pain Management Nursing
Volume 8, Issue 2 , Pages 72-76 , June 2007

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