TY - JOUR
T1 - Reducing pain in children with cancer
T2 - Methodology for the development of a clinical practice guideline
AU - Pain in Children with Cancer Guideline Development Panel
AU - Loeffen, Erik A H
AU - Kremer, Leontien C M
AU - van de Wetering, Marianne D
AU - Mulder, Renée L
AU - Font-Gonzalez, Anna
AU - Dupuis, Lee L
AU - Campbell, Fiona
AU - Tissing, Wim J E
N1 - © 2019 The Authors. Pediatric Blood & Cancer Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
PY - 2019/6
Y1 - 2019/6
N2 - Although pain is one of the most prevalent and bothersome symptoms children with cancer experience, evidence-based guidance regarding assessment and management is lacking. With 44 international, multidisciplinary healthcare professionals and nine patient representatives, we aimed to develop a clinical practice guideline (following GRADE methodology), addressing assessment and pharmacological, psychological, and physical management of tumor-, treatment-, and procedure-related pain in children with cancer. In this paper, we present our thorough methodology for this development, including the challenges we faced and how we approached these. This lays the foundation for our clinical practice guideline, for which there is a high clinical demand.
AB - Although pain is one of the most prevalent and bothersome symptoms children with cancer experience, evidence-based guidance regarding assessment and management is lacking. With 44 international, multidisciplinary healthcare professionals and nine patient representatives, we aimed to develop a clinical practice guideline (following GRADE methodology), addressing assessment and pharmacological, psychological, and physical management of tumor-, treatment-, and procedure-related pain in children with cancer. In this paper, we present our thorough methodology for this development, including the challenges we faced and how we approached these. This lays the foundation for our clinical practice guideline, for which there is a high clinical demand.
KW - Child
KW - Evidence-Based Medicine
KW - Humans
KW - Neoplasms/complications
KW - Pain/etiology
KW - Pain Management/methods
KW - Practice Guidelines as Topic/standards
KW - Prognosis
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U2 - 10.1002/pbc.27698
DO - 10.1002/pbc.27698
M3 - Article
C2 - 30848078
SN - 1545-5009
VL - 66
SP - e27698
JO - Pediatric blood & cancer
JF - Pediatric blood & cancer
IS - 6
M1 - e27698
ER -