Pain
Clinical practice guidelines: the recognition and assessment of acute pain in children: Technical report
The guideline covers: when pain should be assessed; who should assess pain in children; and the use of scales and other tools to assess children’s pain.
This document sets out the guideline recommendations with rationale and strength of evidence, and provides a summary of assessment tools. It also includes the guideline objective and development process, and the evidence base. Please note that the appendices are provided as separate documents as below. (35 pages)
- Publication type - RCN clinical guideline (Technical report)
- Publication date - 2000
- Review Date - Resources permitting it is envisaged that this will be updated every two years
- Availability - Web only
- Clinical practice guidelines: the recognition and assessment of acute pain in children: Technical report (PDF 1.9M) [see how to access PDF files]
The recognition and assessment of acute pain in children: implementation guide
This provides a guide to implementing the clinical guideline in a series of six steps using the clinical audit cycle. (20 pages)
- Publication Type - RCN Implementation guidance
- Publication Date - March 2001
- RCN publication code - 001 309
- Availability - Web and hard copy
- Clinical practice guidelines: The recognition and assessment of acute pain in children: implementation guide (PDF 3.4M)
All about pain
Summary Information for children (9 pages)
- Publication Type - RCN Patient Information
- Publication Date - June 2000
- RCN Publication code - RCN 001 310
- Availability - Hard copy only
The recognition and assessment of acute pain in children: Audit protocol
Provides guidance and documentation for undertaking an audit
- Publication Type - RCN Audit protocol
- Publication Date - September 2002
- RCN Publication - 001 597
- Availability - Web and hard copy
- Clinical Practice Guidelines: Clinical practice guidelines. The recognition and assessment of acute pain in children: audit protocol (PDF 1.2MB)
The recognition and assessment of acute pain in children
These recommendations were incorporated into the 2000 full guideline (technical report)
- Publication Type - RCN Clinical guideline(recommendations)
- Publication Date - 1999
- RCN Publication code - 001 114
- Availability - Hard copy only (RCN Library copy only)
The recognition and assessment of acute pain in children: brief recommendations
The leaflet highlights the recommendations. (10 pages)
- Publication Type - RCN Clinical guideline (Summary of recommendations)
- Publication Date - 1999
- RCN Publication code - 000 988
- Availability - Hard copy only (RCN Library copy only)