A universal right to pain relief: balancing the risks in a vulnerable patient population

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¹ Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Children's Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK. Electronic address: fiona.moultrie@trinity.ox.ac.uk.
² Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Children's Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK.
⁴ Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁵ Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.

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Fiona Moultrie et al. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2019 Feb.

. 2019 Feb;3(2):62-64.

doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(18)30269-4. Epub 2018 Dec 1.

¹ Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Children's Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK. Electronic address: fiona.moultrie@trinity.ox.ac.uk.
² Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Children's Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK.
⁴ Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁵ Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.

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Analgesic efficacy and safety of morphine in the Procedural Pain in Premature Infants (Poppi) study: randomised placebo-controlled trial.
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