TY - JOUR T1 - Review: sucrose reduces crying during painful procedures in newborn infants JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 74 LP - 74 DO - 10.1136/ebn.1.3.74 VL - 1 IS - 3 A2 - , Y1 - 1998/07/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/1/3/74.abstract N2 - Stevens B, Taddio A, Ohlsson A, et al.The efficacy of sucrose for relieving procedural pain in neonates—a systematic review and meta-analysis.Acta Paediatr1997 Aug;86:837–42.OpenUrlPubMedWeb of Science Question Is sucrose effective and safe for reducing pain during procedures in newborn infants? Published studies of any language were identified using Medline (1966–95), Embase (1993–5), and Reference Update (1995–6). Search terms included infant/newborn, pain, analgesia, and sucrose. Recent neonatal and pain journals, conference proceedings, bibliographies, and personal files were hand searched.Studies were selected if they were blinded randomised controlled trials; the treatment included sucrose; the pain stimulus was a common medical procedure; outcomes were behavioural, physiological, hormonal, or metabolic responses to pain; and the study population was term or preterm neonates.3 independent raters evaluated studies for methodological quality (eg, randomisation, double blinding, and accounting for dropouts). Data were extracted on study design, sample size and characteristics, intervention (including … ER -