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Activities of daily living
Activities of daily living (ADLs) are basic self-care tasks like bathing and eating, with instrumental ADLs covering shopping and finances; measured by scales such as Katz, Barthel, and Lawton-Brody.
Barthel index
The Barthel index (BI) is a clinical scale scoring a patient's independence in ten basic activities of daily living, from 0 to 100, used in rehabilitation and geriatric medicine.
Bethesda system
The Bethesda system is a standardized category-based terminology for reporting cytology results, created for cervical (Pap) tests in 1988 and extended to thyroid fine-needle aspiration in 2009.
Dermatology Life Quality Index
The Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) is a 10-question questionnaire measuring the impact of skin disease on quality of life, published in 1994 by Finlay and Khan.
Diagnostic Self Evaluation
Diagnostic Self Evaluation (MeSH D059026; Subjective Health) is a person's appraisal of their own health status, operationalized by the single-item self-rated health question, which independently predicts mortality and varies across cultures and question wordings.
Disability Evaluation
Disability evaluation: formal assessment of whether impairment prevents substantial gainful work. Covers SSA's disability freeze (1954), Bluebook listings, five-step sequential evaluation, state DDS determinations, and inter-rater reliability evidence.
Eczema Area and Severity Index
The Eczema Area and Severity Index (EASI) is a clinical scoring tool for atopic dermatitis, grading lesion extent and severity across body regions on a 0 to 72 scale.
Electroretinography
Electroretinography (ERG) is a non-invasive diagnostic test that records the retina's summed electrical response to light, with waveform components localizing dysfunction from photoreceptors to ganglion cells.
Functional Independence Measure
The Functional Independence Measure (FIM) is an 18-item rating scale used in rehabilitation medicine to quantify the assistance a person with a disability needs for daily activities.
Functional Status
Functional status is a health outcome describing how well a person can perform everyday tasks, from walking and concentrating to self-care activities like bathing, dressing, and eating.
Grimace scale
A grimace scale is an observational pain measure scoring facial expressions in nonverbal subjects like laboratory animals; the first, the Mouse Grimace Scale, was described in 2010.
Harris hip score
The Harris hip score is a clinical rating scale scoring pain, function, range of motion, and deformity after hip surgery, introduced by William H. Harris in 1969.
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) is the World Health Organization's classification for describing and measuring functioning and disability, endorsed by all 191 Member States in 2001.
Malnutrition screening
Malnutrition screening is a rapid, indicator-based procedure that identifies patients who are malnourished or at risk, using validated tools such as MUST, MST, and NRS-2002, typically within 24 hours of hospital admission.
Symptom Assessment
Symptom assessment, the evaluation of manifestations of disease (MeSH D063189), covers patient-reported outcome scales like ESAS, the Symptom Questionnaire, and PHQ-15, clinician-patient discrepancies, electronic reporting, and symptom checkers.
Telemonitoring
Telemonitoring is the remote monitoring of a patient's condition using connected medical devices and sensors, with data transmitted to health workers, often for chronic conditions.
Vasoactive-inotropic score
The vasoactive-inotropic score (VIS) is a clinical score converting vasoactive and inotropic drug doses into one number of support intensity, introduced by Gaies in 2010 for infants after cardiac surgery.
Video oculography
Video oculography, abbreviated VOG, is a clinical diagnostic method that uses infrared camera goggles to record eye position and velocity, assessing vestibular and neurological disorders like vertigo and nystagmus.