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Reducing pain in children with cancer: Methodology for the development of a clinical practice guideline
Abstract
Although pain is one of the most prevalent and bothersome symptoms children with cancer
experience, evidence-based guidance regarding assessment and management is lacking. With
44 international, multidisciplinary healthcare professionals and nine patient representatives, we
aimed to develop a clinical practice guideline (following GRADE methodology), addressing assessment and pharmacological, psychological, and physical management of tumor-, treatment-, and procedure-related pain in children with cancer. In this paper, we present our thorough methodology for this development, including the challenges we faced and how we approached these. This
lays the foundation for our clinical practice guideline, for which there is a high clinical demand