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Assessing Children’s pain
This educational handout for parents provides information on age appropriate pain intensity tools used at Seattle Children’s. This handout contains a range of pain assessment scales for infants to adolescents. While the primary audience is patients and families, it can also be a bedside resource for staff when assessing pain intensity in practice.
Faces Pain Scale – Revised
The Faces Pain Scale – Revised (FPS-R) is a self-report measure of pain intensity developed for children. It shows a close linear relationship with visual analog pain scales across the age range of 4-16 years. It is easy to administer and requires no equipment except for the photocopied faces. The absence of smiles and tears […]