Reliability and validity of the Pediatric Intensity Level of Therapy (PILOT) scale: A measure of the use of intracranial pressure-directed therapies

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1981-1987

  Shore, Paul M ^a,b   Hand, Linda L ^c   Roy, Lonnie ^b   Trivedi, Premal ^d   Kochanek, Patrick M ^c,d,e   Adelson, P David ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Barbiturates; Child abuse; Clinical research; Decompressive craniectomy; Head injury; Hypothermia; Nonaccidental trauma; Scale development; Therapeutic intensity

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; MANNITOL; NARCOTIC AGENT; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; PENTOBARBITAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRANIECTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INJURY SEVERITY; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE BURDEN; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PEDIATRIC INTENSITY LEVEL OF THERAPY SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THERAPY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT INTENSITY; VALIDITY;

BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 33745606053     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000220765.22184.ED     Document Type: Article

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