Pain in Intellectually Disabled Children: Towards Evidence-Based Pharmacotherapy?
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Pain in Intellectually Disabled Children: Towards Evidence-Based Pharmacotherapy?
This critical opinion article deals with the challenges of finding the most effective pharmacotherapeutic options for the management of pain in intellectually disabled children and provides recommendations for clinical practice and research. Intellectual disability can be caused by a wide variety of underlying diseases and may be associated with congenital anomalies such as cardiac defects, sma...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Drugs
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1174-5878,1179-2019
DOI: 10.1007/s40272-015-0138-0