What evidence dated within the last ten years is there on use of sweet oral substances to alleviate discomfort in infants?

Twelve systematic reviews and meta-analyses dated within the last 10 years are found with a search in PubMed. Here’s how to conduct this search.

  1. You may start with the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library homepage at http://health.library.emory.edu/ and then click “PubMed” or you may use this direct link to Emory’s instance of PubMed at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?otool=emorylib
  2. Copy and paste this search into the search box and click “Search.”infant AND (oral administration OR chewing gum) AND (pain management OR (pain AND (male circumcision OR intravenous injection OR blood specimen collections OR punctures))) AND (sucrose OR sweetening agents)
  3. To impose the filter/limit of 10 years, click “10 years” to the left of the search results page (listing of articles found with the search).
  4. To impose the filter/limit of meta-analysis or systematic review, click “More” under the bold heading for “Article types” on the left side of the search results page. Then click the boxes beside “Meta-Analysis” and “Systemic Reviews” and click “Show.” This step made the filters/limits visible for use in the search. Then click “Meta-Analysis” and “Systematic Review” to impose these filters/limits on the current search.
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About Lisa

I have been a Clinical Informationist (aka Medical Librarian) for Emory University since September 2013. Prior to that, I was a Medical Librarian for Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) from March 2007 to August 2013 and served its DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine (LMU-DCOM), Caylor School of Nursing, and allied health programs. From January 2002 - March 2007, I served the Medical Assisting (MA), Occupational Therapy Assistant, Physical Therapy Assistant, Radiologic Technologist, and Nursing programs at South College in Knoxville, Tennessee. I graduated from The University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences with a Master of Science degree in December 2000. Received a Educational Specialist (EdS) degree in Educational Administration and Supervision with a higher education focus in August 2010 from LMU.

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