Clinical Dehydration Scale
Clinical score for dehydration severity.
What is Clinical Dehydration Scale?
Clinical Dehydration Scale: Clinical score for dehydration severity. Active calculation. Population: Children with suspected dehydration. Traceable evidence…
Population and scope
Dehydration. Children with suspected dehydration
Also searched as
CDS · clinical dehydration scale · dehydration · cds · escala deshidratacion
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Clinical use
This PedsCore page brings together clinical information, implementation status and available evidence for Clinical Dehydration Scale. It is intended for Children with suspected dehydration. The tool belongs to Pediatric emergency and should be interpreted in the appropriate clinical context.
Interpretation and validation
Variables, ranges, or rules are described in project documentation; final tracing against primary sources is required before active calculation.
PedsCore does not replace clinical judgement. Scores, rules and calculators are presented with evidence traceability and a visible implementation status.
Clinical review and maintenance
Implementation review and independent clinical review are shown separately. PedsCore does not attribute named reviewers or external endorsement without a public record supporting the claim. The repository preserves source, change and test history.
Editorial transparency
This page is part of an open-source project. Evidence level, implementation status, validation notes and sources are shown explicitly. It currently contains 3 catalog references. Content and calculation changes are reviewed through the public repository, automated tests and version traceability.
The absence of an active calculator is not a clinical recommendation: some tools remain reference-only while source, licensing, exact variant or validation still require review.
Each page lets you verify what is being assessed, which population the tool describes, whether local calculation is available, which limitations remain open and which references support implementation. This context matters when different publications, versions or adaptations share a similar name but are not interchangeable.
References
- Friedman JN, Goldman RD, Srivastava R, Parkin PC. Development of a clinical dehydration scale for use in children between 1 and 36 months of age. J Pediatr. 2004;145(2):201-207.
- Goldman RD, Friedman JN, Parkin PC. Validation of the clinical dehydration scale for children with acute gastroenteritis. Pediatrics. 2008;122(3):545-549.
- Bailey B, Gravel J, Goldman RD, Friedman JN, Parkin PC. External validation of the clinical dehydration scale for children with acute gastroenteritis. Acad Emerg Med. 2010;17(6):583-588.