CHEOPS

Observational pediatric pain scale.

What is CHEOPS?

CHEOPS: Observational pediatric pain scale. Population: Children aged 1 to 7 years. Traceable evidence in PedsCore.

Population and scope

Pediatric Pain. Children aged 1 to 7 years

Also searched as

CHEOPS · cheops pain · cheops dolor

Clinical use

This PedsCore page brings together clinical information, implementation status and available evidence for CHEOPS. It is intended for Children aged 1 to 7 years. The tool belongs to Pain and should be interpreted in the appropriate clinical context.

Interpretation and validation

PedsCore has not verified a licence that unambiguously permits full republication of this tool. An active clinical reference page is retained with a direct link to the original or official source.

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Clinical review and maintenance

Implementation review and independent clinical review are shown separately. PedsCore does not attribute named reviewers or external endorsement without a public record supporting the claim. The repository preserves source, change and test history.

Editorial transparency

This page is part of an open-source project. Evidence level, implementation status, validation notes and sources are shown explicitly. It currently contains 2 catalog references. Content and calculation changes are reviewed through the public repository, automated tests and version traceability.

The absence of an active calculator is not a clinical recommendation: some tools remain reference-only while source, licensing, exact variant or validation still require review.

Each page lets you verify what is being assessed, which population the tool describes, whether local calculation is available, which limitations remain open and which references support implementation. This context matters when different publications, versions or adaptations share a similar name but are not interchangeable.

References

  • CHEOPS official measure reference
  • McGrath PJ, Johnson G, Goodman JT, Schillinger J, Dunn J, Chapman J. CHEOPS: A behavioral scale for rating postoperative pain in children. In: Fields HL, Dubner R, Cervero F, editors. Advances in Pain Research and Therapy. 1985;9:395-402.

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