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Schenk, Karin https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4356-3551
Stoffel, Liliane
Bürgin, Reto
Stevens, Bonnie
Bassler, Dirk
Schulzke, Sven
Nelle, Mathias
Cignacco, Eva
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Funding for this research was provided by:
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (SNF 320030_159573)
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Article History
Received: 16 April 2018
Accepted: 20 December 2018
First Online: 15 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee Bern (2015–238), the Ethics Committee northwest/central Switzerland EKNZ (2015–385) and the Ethics Committee Zurich (2015–563).Written informed consent was obtained from parents according to the protocol approved by the ethics committees. We did not expose infants to additional painful situations. No heel sticks were performed solely for research purposes. We upheld the current standard of care in pain prevention by giving oral sucrose to all infants before the heel stick procedure.
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