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Pain Squad

The Hospital for Sick Children

Issue 26 | March 2013

Background

Every year at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, (or SickKids), hundreds of children are treated for cancer. These young patients have to endure great pain. In order to help them manage it better, the hospital needed their patients to keep daily records of how they felt.

The trouble was that after treatment, many children were too tired to try to keep a detailed report. After treatment however many patients are too tired to keep detailed reports.