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Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale
Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research, 2004Patients with advanced illnesses often have multiple symptoms. As interest in palliative care and interventions for symptom control increase, the ability to assess multiple symptoms has become more important. A number of instruments have been developed to meet this need in cancer patients.
Victor T, Chang +4 more
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Shorter Symptom Assessment Instruments: The Condensed Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (CMSAS)
Cancer Investigation, 2004Rapid and efficient symptom assessment is an important aspect of palliative care. The objective was to determine whether a smaller number of symptoms from the 32-item Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale Short-Form (MSAS-SF) could convey equivalent quality of life (QOL) information.Responses from 479 medical oncology patients who completed the MSAS-SF and
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Assessing Psychologic Symptoms in Adolescents
Southern Medical Journal, 1978Assessing the meaning of psychologic symptoms in adolescents can be a difficult task. Pediatricians, internists, and family practitioners are often the first professionals consulted by families worried that their teen-agers may be in psychologic distress.
J, Looney, D, Oldham, M, Blotcky
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Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 2007
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) presents symptomatically and the main aim of treatment is to reduce or abolish these reflux-related symptoms. Objective tests such as endoscopy, esophageal pH monitoring, and esophageal histology, identify a high proportion of patients who have reflux-related esophageal injury but they identify a smaller ...
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Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) presents symptomatically and the main aim of treatment is to reduce or abolish these reflux-related symptoms. Objective tests such as endoscopy, esophageal pH monitoring, and esophageal histology, identify a high proportion of patients who have reflux-related esophageal injury but they identify a smaller ...
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Categorizing and assessing negative symptoms
Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2017To provide a review on studies published in the last year relevant to the categorization and assessment of negative symptoms.Recent research supported the validity of the 'deficit/non-deficit schizophrenia' categorization. Few studies confirmed the validity of the category 'persistent negative symptoms', whereas no recent study explored the validity of
BUCCI, Paola, GALDERISI, Silvana
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Symptom assessment in cancer patients
Current Oncology Reports, 2002Patients with cancer suffer from a multitude of symptoms. Effective treatment strategies are available for a number of the common symptoms. A major reason for inadequate symptom relief is lack of effective symptom assessment. Accurate assessment of symptoms is necessary before any treatment can be undertaken.
Michael, Naughton, Jade, Homsi
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Clinical Assessment of Symptom Clusters
Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 2007To review the principles of symptom cluster assessment, choosing appropriate symptom measures, and methods to identify symptom clusters.Review articles, research articles, and specialty texts.Identification of symptom clusters is clinically challenging and includes the use of reliable symptom assessment tools and clinical judgment.
Cheryl, Lacasse, Susan L, Beck
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Assessing Usual Seasonal Depression Symptoms: The Seasonality Assessment Form
Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 2014This paper presents findings on the psychometric properties of a new measure of the usual severity of winter symptomatology commonly found in Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), the Seasonality Assessment Form (SAF). Many existing SAD-related measures focus on diagnostic screening, include a limited range of symptoms or are revisions of standard self ...
Young, Michael A. +3 more
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2012
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a serious and prevalent mental health disorder that poses significant challenges for accurate assessment and diagnosis. This chapter describes some of the most widely used PTSD assessment tools for adult trauma survivors, including structured interviews, self-report measures, and biologically based methods, with ...
Michelle J. Bovin, Frank W. Weathers
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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a serious and prevalent mental health disorder that poses significant challenges for accurate assessment and diagnosis. This chapter describes some of the most widely used PTSD assessment tools for adult trauma survivors, including structured interviews, self-report measures, and biologically based methods, with ...
Michelle J. Bovin, Frank W. Weathers
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Dermatological Symptom Assessment
2019The skin, also known as the integumentary system, is one of the largest and most visible organs of the body which reflects the health of the body and acts as a barrier against injury and pathogens. The nails and hair are considered to be appendages of the skin rather than independent anatomic entities.
Ravina Sanghera, Parbeer Singh Grewal
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