Researchers Seek to Improve Methods Used to Assess Children’s Pain
Working under a 5-year National Institutes of Health grant, researchers at the University of Washington School of Dentistry in Seattle are seeking to improve how oral health professionals measure pediatric patients’ pain.
Working under a 5-year National Institutes of Health grant, researchers at the University of Washington School of Dentistry in Seattle are seeking to improve how oral health professionals measure pediatric patients’ pain.
The study consists of three phases: determining what oral health professionals know about assessing pain and how they make such assessments; creating an implementation strategy to improve the use of these assessment tools and conducting pilot studies to test appropriateness, acceptability and feasibility; and developing a plan to scale up the implementation strategy so clinicians who treat children can more accurately determine and manage pain in this patient population.
From Dimensions of Dental Hygiene. February 2020;18(2):9.
