Reducing pain during vaccine injections: clinical practice guideline

Anna Taddio¹, C Meghan McMurtry², Vibhuti Shah²+23

• ¹Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy (Taddio), University of Toronto, and The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ont.; Department of Psychology (McMurtry), University of Guelph, Children's Health Research Institute, and Department of Paediatrics, Western University, London, Ont.; Mount Sinai Hospital (Shah), and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Department of Psychology (Pillai Riddell), York University, Toronto, Ont.; Departments of Pediatrics (Chambers), and Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, and Centre for Pediatric Pain Research, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS; Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development (Noel), Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Wash.; Department of Pediatrics (MacDonald), Dalhousie University, IWK Health Centre and Canadian Center for Vaccinology, Halifax, NS; Centre for Effective Practice (Rogers), and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Immunize Canada (Bucci), Canadian Public Health Association, Ottawa, Ont.; Child and Adolescent Health Program Committee (Mousmanis), The College of Family Physicians of Canada, Mississauga, Ont.; Alberta Health Services (Lang), and Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta.; Departments of Pediatrics (Halperin), and Microbiology and Immunology, and Canadian Center for Vaccinology, Dalhousie University, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS; College of Pharmacy (Bowles), Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; Immunization Programs and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Service (Halpert), BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC; Department of Paediatrics (Ipp), The Hospital for Sick Children, and Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Department of Psychology (Asmundson), Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, Regina, Sask.; Departments of Paediatrics (Rieder), Physiology and Pharmacology, and Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ont.; Canadian Family Advisory Network (Robson), Toronto, Ont.; E.M. Uleryk Consulting (Uleryk), Mississauga, Ont.; Department of Psychology (Antony), Ryerson University, Toronto, Ont.; Toronto Public Health (Dubey), Toronto, Ont.; Communicable Disease Control (Hanrahan), Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Alta.; Bodhi Seed Center for Healing and Conscious Living (Lockett), Milton, Ont.; Department of Emergency Medicine (Scott), IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS; Science Directorate (Votta Bleeker), Canadian Psychological Association, Ottawa, Ont. anna.taddio@utoronto.ca.+1