Cancers, Vol. 16, Pages 1025: Preventing and Treating Pain and Anxiety during Needle-Based Procedures in Children with Cancer in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Conclusions: This multi-site, multi-country QI initiative was feasible and was successfully adopted, adapted, and implemented in the LMIC context to improve procedural pain in children (Global Comfort Promise). Additionally, this intervention resulted in high satisfaction of both healthcare professionals and patients/families. Further work is needed to overcome the challenges of topical anesthetic access and education of the workforce. Additional plans include modifying the Global Comfort Promise to include high-quality communication and expanding to additional sites with further refinement of the implementation strategy.

Source: Cancers - March 1, 2024 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Michael J. McNeil Ximena Garcia Quintero Miriam Gonzalez Yawen Zheng Cecilia Ugaz Olivares Roxana Morales Erica Boldrini D ébora Rebollo de Campos Daiane Ferreira Kamalina Coopasamy Joliza Caneba Maria Louisa Padernilla Stefan Friedrichsdorf Justin N. Ba Tags: Article Source Type: research