Comparison of scoring systems for assessment of acute mountain sickness

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 245-251

  Wagner, Dale R ^a   Teramoto, Masaru ^b   Knott, Jonathan R ^a   Fry, Jack P ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

altitude; Environmental Symptoms Questionnaire; illness; Lake Louise; mountaineering; visual analog scale

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL VISION; ACUTE MOUNTAIN SICKNESS; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COORDINATION DISORDER; DECREASED APPETITE; DIZZINESS; FAINTNESS; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MOUNTAINEERING; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WEAKNESS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF REPORT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84876369419     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: 15578682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2012.1030     Document Type: Article

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