Why does children’s pain get short shrift?

“When a child ends up in hospital, we assume everything will be done to care for them, including minimizing pain.

Unfortunately, that assumption is wrong. Two new research papers serve as a grim reminder that pain is systematically undertreated in children.”

We are very excited to see our research in today’s Globe and Mail article, “Why does children’s pain get short shrift?” by Public Health Reporter, André Picard.

Click here to read more about the research that Dr. Christine Chambers and her PhD student, Kathryn Birnie, are conducting.