Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 3 , Pages 331-336 , March 2010

Reliability and validity of a scoring instrument for clinical performance during Pediatric Advanced Life Support simulation scenarios

  • Aaron Donoghue

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, United States
    • Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, United States
    • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Center for Simulation, Advanced Education, and Innovation, Philadelphia, PA, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States. Tel.: +1 215 590 1289; fax: +1 215 590 4454.
    • ,
  • Akira Nishisaki

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, United States
    • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Center for Simulation, Advanced Education, and Innovation, Philadelphia, PA, United States
    • ,
  • Robert Sutton

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, United States
    • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Center for Simulation, Advanced Education, and Innovation, Philadelphia, PA, United States
    • ,
  • Roberta Hales

      Affiliations

    • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Center for Simulation, Advanced Education, and Innovation, Philadelphia, PA, United States
    • ,
  • John Boulet

      Affiliations

    • Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Received 26 July 2009 ,Revised 10 October 2009 ,Accepted 23 November 2009.

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☆ “A Spanish translated version of the abstract of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.11.011”.

PII: S0300-9572(09)00592-9

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.11.011

Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 3 , Pages 331-336 , March 2010

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