Developmental medicine and child neurology
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Dev Med Child Neurol · Feb 2011
The relation between children's pain behaviour and developmental characteristics: a cross-sectional study.
To determine whether children with developmental disabilities show responses to pain that vary according to developmental level. ⋯ Pain behaviour was distinct from developmental factors in two separate analyses using two functional measures. Clinicians can be confident that pain assessment with the NCCPC-R is not affected by children's developmental level.