Language used in Lake Louise scoring system underestimates symptoms of acute mountain sickness in 4- to 11-year-old children

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 124-130

  Southard, Andrew ^a   Niermeyer, Susan ^b   Yaron, Michael ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute mountain sickness; Children; High altitude; Lake Louise Scoring System; Pediatric

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIZZINESS; EVALUATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LAKE LOUISE AGE ADJUSTED SYMPTOM SCORE; LAKE LOUISE SCORING SYSTEM; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLORADO; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34347211432     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2006.1014     Document Type: Article

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