pain in children with cognitive impairment. Anesth Analg, 2002. 95(5): p. 1224-9, table of contents. Study Can NCCPC be Use of the Question used for scoring assessment of to objectively post-op pain in and reliably cognitively measures impaired pain in children? children with CI? Study Randomized, Design investigator non-blinded, blinded cross-sectional prospective study cohort study Validity +/- Yes? Results Good reliability Reliability? for facial and Validity: vocal Good subclasses, ICC correlation 0.77 and 0.81, between overall nurses’ and reliability was parents VAS. ok Good Validity? correlation of the FLACC in the face and cry categories, limited in legs and activity. Limitations Small sample Study size performed to
pain in children with cognitive impairment. Anesth Analg, 2002. 95(5): p. 1224-9, table of contents. Study Question Can NCCPC be used for assessment of post-op pain in cognitively impaired children? Use of the scoring to objectively and reliably measures pain in children with CI? Study Design non-blinded, cross-sectional study Randomized, investigator blinded prospective cohort study Validity +/- Yes? Results Good reliability for facial and vocal subclasses, ICC 0.77 and 0.81, overall reliability was ok Validity? Reliability? Validity: Good correlation between nurses’ and parents VAS. Good correlation of the FLACC in the face and cry categories, limited in legs and activity. Limitations Small sample size Study performed to
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