Visual analogue scores in assessment of acute mountain sickness

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 329-333

  Hext, Faye ^a   Stubbings, Alison ^a   Bird, Brynn ^a   Patey, Susannah ^a   Wright, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

acute mountain sickness; altitude; Lake Louise Score; Visual Analogue Score

Indexed keywords

ACUTE MOUNTAIN SICKNESS; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIZZINESS; ENVIRONMENTAL SYMPTOM QUESTIONNAIRE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAKE LOUISE SELF REPORT SCORE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF EVALUATION; SLEEP; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WEAKNESS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84855185434     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: 15578682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2010.1055     Document Type: Article

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