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Editorial
. 2022 Mar 3;9(3):347.
doi: 10.3390/children9030347.

Comprehensive Pain Management Using Opioids for Children and Adolescents: Still a Wild Goose to Chase?

Johanna M C Blom  1   2 , Cristina Benatti  2   3
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Editorial

Comprehensive Pain Management Using Opioids for Children and Adolescents: Still a Wild Goose to Chase?

Johanna M C Blom et al. Children (Basel). .

Abstract

Children and adolescents treated for acute and chronic pain represent particular vulnerable patients with distinct and unmet medical and psychosocial needs that continue even beyond the complexity of treating the diseases they suffer [...].

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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