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- Title
Toward an Improved Scale for Assessing Symptom Severity in Children With Acute Otitis Media.
- Authors
Shaikh, Nader; Hoberman, Alejandro; Rockette, Howard E.; Kurs-Lasky, Marcia; Paradise, Jack L.
- Abstract
The objective of the present study was to determine whether changes in the previously developed 7-item Acute Otitis Media Severity of Symptoms scale could improve its responsiveness and its longitudinal construct validity. The items "diminished activity" and "diminished appetite" had low or borderline levels of responsiveness and longitudinal construct validity. Dropping these items seems to be potentially advantageous.
- Subjects
ACUTE otitis media; SYMPTOMS; HEALTH status indicators; APPETITE disorders; SEVERITY of illness index
- Publication
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 2015, Vol 4, Issue 4, p367
- ISSN
2048-7193
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jpids/piu062