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Asthma Control Test
The Asthma Control Test is a five-item patient questionnaire scoring asthma control over the past four weeks, from 5 to 25, with 19 or less indicating poor control.
Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index
The Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI) is a six-item patient questionnaire measuring disease activity in axial spondyloarthritis, scored 0 to 10, developed in Bath, England.
Braak staging
Braak staging is a postmortem neuropathological method that grades Alzheimer's disease progression by the anatomical spread of tau tangles, assigning autopsy brains to six stages, I–VI.
Child–Pugh score
The Child–Pugh score, also called Child–Turcotte-Pugh, grades liver cirrhosis severity from 5 to 15 points across five parameters, giving classes A, B, and C used for prognosis and drug dosing.
Disease activity score
The disease activity score (DAS) is a composite clinical index for rheumatoid arthritis that combines joint counts, patient global assessment, and ESR or CRP to guide treatment.
Full-field electroretinography
Full-field electroretinography (ffERG) is a clinical electrophysiological test recording the whole retina's electrical response to light flashes, separating rod from cone function to diagnose retinal dystrophies.
Glasgow Blatchford score
The Glasgow Blatchford score (GBS) is a clinical scoring system that predicts which patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding need transfusion, endoscopy, or surgery, and identifies low-risk patients suitable for outpatient management.
International Prostate Symptom Score
The International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) is an eight-item questionnaire used in urology to grade urinary symptom severity in men and track change over time or treatment.
Lysholm knee score
The Lysholm knee score is an eight-item questionnaire rating symptoms and function after knee ligament injury, introduced by Jack Lysholm and Jan Gillquist in 1982.
McDonald criteria
The McDonald criteria are the international diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis, combining clinical attacks with MRI evidence of lesions disseminated in space and time, introduced in 2001.
Pneumonia severity index
The pneumonia severity index (PSI) is a clinical prediction rule, reported in 1997, that sorts adults with community-acquired pneumonia into five classes of 30-day mortality risk to guide site-of-care decisions.
Rey–Osterrieth complex figure test
The Rey–Osterrieth complex figure test (RCFT) is a neuropsychological test assessing visuospatial ability and visual memory, in which a person copies a complex figure and later draws it from memory.
SAPS II
SAPS II (Simplified Acute Physiology Score II) is an ICU severity-of-illness score estimating hospital mortality risk from 17 variables collected in the first 24 hours.
Sickness Impact Profile
The Sickness Impact Profile (SIP) is a self-administered questionnaire measuring how sickness changes everyday behavior, with 136 yes/no items in 12 categories, scored 0% to 100% dysfunction.
Thyroid feedback quantile-based index
The thyroid feedback quantile-based index (TFQI) is a calculated measure of impaired pituitary sensitivity to free thyroxine, proposed in Diabetes Care in 2018 and ranging from −1 to 1.
Tyrer–Cuzick model
The Tyrer–Cuzick model, also called the IBIS model, is a statistical tool that estimates a woman's 10-year and lifetime risk of developing breast cancer to guide screening and prevention.