Global advances in health and medicine : improving healthcare outcomes worldwide
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Glob Adv Health Med · Jul 2015
Integrative Care Therapies and Physiological and Pain-related Outcomes in Hospitalized Infants.
Pain management is a frequent problem in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Few studies examining effects of integrative care therapies on pain-related outcomes in neonates have included physiological outcomes or investigated the use of such therapies in a practice-based setting. ⋯ Observed improvements in pain-related outcomes suggest that massage and healing touch may be useful integrative therapies to consider as pain management options in the NICU.