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Detecting Acute Pain is Enough: The Conundrum of Pain Assessment

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Is scoring pain mandatory in newborns? Sometimes it is, and some others it is not [1]. We shall describe when and how in this chapter.

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    Carlo Valerio Bellieni

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Bellieni, C.V., Buonocore, G. (2017). Detecting Acute Pain is Enough: The Conundrum of Pain Assessment. In: Buonocore, G., Bellieni, C.V. (eds) Neonatal Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53232-5_10

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