Pain Assessment in the Outpatient Pediatric Burn Patient: An Integrative Review.
Cindy D ColsonJudy AscenziElizabeth WaibelDeborah BuschPublished in: Journal of trauma nursing : the official journal of the Society of Trauma Nurses (2024)
The Pain Observation Scale for Young Children and the COMFORT Behavior Scale tools have shown good reliability and construct validity and can be safely used to measure background and procedural pain in daily burn practice. Further research on reliable, validated pain assessment techniques in the pediatric burn population is needed.