Comparison of a visual analogue scale and lake louise symptom scores for acute mountain sickness

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 69-72

  Kayser, Bengt ^a   Aliverti, Andrea ^b   Pellegrino, Riccardo ^c   Dellaca, Raffaele ^b   Quaranta, Marco ^b   Pompilio, Pasquale ^b   Miserocchi, Giuseppe ^d   Cogo, Annalisa ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c S CROCE E CARLE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

altitude; AMS; Lake Louise questionnaire; VAS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP PARAMETERS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; HOSPITALIZATION;

ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77954712597     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2009.1046     Document Type: Article

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