Endpoint

Neonatal procedural pain score (across unharmonised instruments)

CAT:outcome/neonatal-procedural-pain-score-pooledreported in standardised mean difference

How it is measured

Pain score of a neonate during or after a painful procedure (heel lance, venepuncture) on whichever behavioural-physiological scales the source studies used (PIPP, PIPP-R, NIPS, NFCS, N-PASS), expressed on a common standardised scale across unharmonised instruments. Constituent scales are listed with each finding.