Reliability and utility of a visual analog scale for the assessment of acute mountain sickness

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 27-31

  Wagner, Dale R ^a   Tatsugawa, Kevin ^b   Parker, Daryl ^c   Young, Troy A ^c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitude illness; AMS; Climbing; Mountaineering; Trekking; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLIMBING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LAKE LOUISE ACUTE MOUNTAIN SICKNESS SELF REPORT SCORE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF EVALUATION; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34247132702     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2006.0814     Document Type: Article

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