Importance Opioids are frequently prescribed to children and adolescents after surgery.
Prescription opioid misuse is associated with high-risk behavior in youth. Evidence-based …

Purpose/Objectives: To identify and appraise current evidence related to the effectiveness of
psychological and physical (nonpharmacologic) pain management modalities for children …

Objectives: Pain is a common and distressing symptom of pediatric cancer, as reported by
both children and their parents. Increasingly, children with cancer are cared for as …

Background Over 12,000 children are diagnosed with cancer every year in the United
States. In addition to symptoms associated with their disease, children undergoing …

Purpose To analyze coping strategies used by children with cancer undergoing
chemotherapy during hospitalization. Design and Methods This was an exploratory study to …

We evaluated the construct validity (including responsiveness), reliability, and feasibility of
the Pain Squad multidimensional smartphone-based pain assessment application (app) in …

Objective Previous work in pediatric oncology has found that clinicians and parents tend to
under-report the frequency and severity of treatment-related symptoms compared to child …

Advances in treatment mean children are increasingly cared for by their parents at home,
leading to a shift in responsibility from health care professionals to parents. Little is known …

Over the past 50 years, advances in treatment have resulted in significant improvements in
pediatric cancer survival rates. 61 Such improvements have been due, in part, to more …

The proper assessment of needs and outcomes in pediatric palliative care (PPC) is
imperative to ensure the best possible service to patients and families. However, given the …