Use of the visual analog scale to rate and monitor severity of nausea in the emergency department

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1304-1310

  Meek, Robert ^a   Kelly, Anne Maree ^b   Xue, Feng Hu ^a  

^a DANDENONG HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b WESTERN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emergency medicine; Nausea; Visual analog scale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; ANTIEMETICS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 71549149046     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00581.x     Document Type: Article

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