Validity of the Comfort Scale - A New Method to Assess Distress

Katz, Robert W.

Abstract

The """"""""COMFORT"""""""" scale is a tool that will allow physicians and nurses to objectively assess the amount of distress that infants and children are experiencing while in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. The use of this scale will allow physicians and nurses to assess objectively the efficacy of pharmacologic and psychological interventions used to reduce stress.

Funding Agency

• Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Institute: National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
• Type: General Clinical Research Centers Program (M01)
• Project #: 2M01RR000997-18
• Application #: 3788024
• Support Year: 18
• Fiscal Year: 1993

Institution

• Name: University of New Mexico
• DUNS #: 829868723
• City: Albuquerque
• State: NM
• Country: United States
• Zip Code: 87131

Publications

Duggan, Catherine; Baumgartner, Richard N; Baumgartner, Kathy B et al. (2018) Genetic variation in TNF?, PPAR?, and IRS-1 genes, and their association with breast-cancer survival in the HEAL cohort. Breast Cancer Res Treat 168:567-576

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Srinivasan, Lakshmi; Page, Grier; Kirpalani, Haresh et al. (2017) Genome-wide association study of sepsis in extremely premature infants. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 102:F439-F445

Di Fiore, Juliann M; Martin, Richard J; Li, Hong et al. (2017) Patterns of Oxygenation, Mortality, and Growth Status in the Surfactant Positive Pressure and Oxygen Trial Cohort. J Pediatr 186:49-56.e1

Parvez, Faruque; Medina, Sebastian; Santella, Regina M et al. (2017) Arsenic exposures alter clinical indicators of anemia in a male population of smokers and non-smokers in Bangladesh. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 331:62-68

Denson, Lee A; McDonald, Scott A; Das, Abhik et al. (2017) Early Elevation in Interleukin-6 is Associated with Reduced Growth in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants. Am J Perinatol 34:240-247

Harmon, Molly E; Lewis, Johnnye; Miller, Curtis et al. (2017) Residential proximity to abandoned uranium mines and serum inflammatory potential in chronically exposed Navajo communities. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 27:365-371

Younge, Noelle; Goldstein, Ricki F; Bann, Carla M et al. (2017) Survival and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes among Periviable Infants. N Engl J Med 376:617-628

Williams, Robert C; Elston, Robert C; Kumar, Pankaj et al. (2016) Selecting SNPs informative for African, American Indian and European Ancestry: application to the Family Investigation of Nephropathy and Diabetes (FIND). BMC Genomics 17:325

Harmon, Molly E; Campen, Matthew J; Miller, Curtis et al. (2016) Associations of Circulating Oxidized LDL and Conventional Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Disease in a Cross-Sectional Study of the Navajo Population. PLoS One 11:e0143102