Prospective authors of a commentary are invited to e-mail the proposed topic to the editor and the editorial assistant before submission. A list of suggested topics is available below.
The length limit is normally 1,200 words, not including references. References should include links to PubMed abstracts for the articles cited in the commentary.
The format to prepare a commentary for blind review provided below.
Suggested topics
- Abdominal pain
- Acute pain
- Arthritis
- Attitudes to drugs
- Burn pain
- Cancer pain
- Changing clinical practice
- Child life specialist services
- Children’s understanding of pain
- Chronic pain
- Co-production in pediatric pain research
- Cultural factors in pain
- Dental pain
- Emergency room pain
- Equity, diversity and inclusion in pediatric pain
- Fear of pain
- Family and friends (wider social context of pain)
- Fetal pain
- Headache and migraine
- Hypnosis
- Knowledge translation and exchange
- Local or topical analgesic toxicity
- Medication (e.g. side effects, safety)
- Memory for pain
- Menstrual pain
- Neonatal pain
- Neurodiversity and pediatric pain
- Neuropathic pain
- Non-pharmacological management of pain
- Pain and development
- Pain conditions (e.g. complex regional pain syndrome)
- Pain in non verbal children, adolescents and young adults
- Pain measurement
- Parents and carers (e.g. impacts, behaviors)
- Participatory methods in pediatric pain
- Patient partners
- Postoperative pain
- Prevalence of pain
- Psychosocial factors in pediatric pain
- Sickle cell pain
- School and employment
- Stigma
- Temporal factors in understanding of pain
- Treatment adherence
- Transition
- Vaccination