Taking the Sting Out of Shots: Control of Vaccination-Associated Pain and Adverse Reactions
- 1 June 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by SLACK, Inc. in Pediatric Annals
- Vol. 27 (6) , 375-386
- https://doi.org/10.3928/0090-4481-19980601-12
Abstract
Pediatric Annals | In recent years, physician enthusiasm for the protection provided by newly licensed vaccines has been tempered by concerns about the pain and adverse reactions associated with additional injections. Physician and parent anxiety about multiple simultaneous injections is widespread and often leads to the withholding of scheduled vaccines.1'5 Specifically, concern about multiple injections hasThis publication has 86 references indexed in Scilit:
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