Large observer variation of clinical assessment of dyspnoeic wheezing children

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 649-653

  Bekhof, Jolita ^a   Reimink, Roelien ^a   Bartels, Ine Marije ^a,b   Eggink, Hendriekje ^a,b   Brand, Paul L P ^a  

^a ISALA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIKERT SCALE; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; VIDEORECORDING; WHEEZING; ACUTE DISEASE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ACUTE DISEASE; BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84933180445     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2014-307143     Document Type: Article

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