Guidelines on the management of chronic pain in children
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- Clinical practice guideline
- 2020
- Published by the issuer
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What it says
WHO's guidelines cover physical, psychological and drug treatments for chronic pain, primary or secondary, in children and adolescents up to 19. They are meant to help countries set policies and protocols that give children access to pain relief while limiting the harms of medicine misuse.
WHO calls for an interdisciplinary, multimodal approach tailored to the child, family and available resources, and makes conditional recommendations: physical therapies may be used alone or with other treatments; cognitive behavioral therapy and related psychological treatments may be used, delivered in person or remotely; and appropriate medication may be used for specific conditions, including morphine at the end of life under opioid stewardship by trained providers.
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