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Abbreviated Injury Scale
The Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) is an anatomical coding system that grades each individual injury from 1 (minor) to 6 (maximal) across nine body regions.
Biophysical profile
The biophysical profile, or fetal biophysical profile, is a prenatal surveillance test combining ultrasound with a nonstress test, scoring five fetal variables for a total of 0 to 10.
Clinical Global Impression
Clinical Global Impression is a clinician-rated scale developed for NIMH-sponsored clinical trials. It records a rater's overall judgment of a patient's illness severity and change.
Clinical staging
Clinical staging is the classification of a cancer's extent by tumor size, lymph node involvement, and metastasis, using the TNM system, assigned before any definitive treatment to guide therapy and predict survival.
Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale
The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) is a 10-item self-report questionnaire screening for depression during pregnancy and postnatally, the most widely used such screening tool.
Geriatric Depression Scale
The Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) is a self-report questionnaire of yes/no items used to screen for depression in older adults, published in 1982 with a 30-item long form and a 15-item short form.
HEART score
The HEART score is a bedside risk tool for emergency department chest pain patients, scoring History, ECG, Age, Risk factors, and Troponin to predict major cardiac events within 6 weeks.
Manchester triage
Manchester triage, formally the Manchester Triage System (MTS), is a five-category, color-coded method for prioritizing emergency department patients, developed in Manchester, UK, in 1994 and used in countries including Germany and Portugal.
Pediatric early warning score
The pediatric early warning score (PEWS) converts a hospitalized child's vital signs into a numerical acuity score, with threshold scores linked to an escalation of care.
Remote consultation
A remote consultation is a complete episode of clinical care between patient and clinician without face-to-face contact, by telephone, video, or secure messaging, as defined in NHS England guidance.
Social Responsiveness Scale
The Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) is a 65-item questionnaire, completed by parents, teachers, or adults, that quantifies social impairment as a continuous trait rather than a categorical autism diagnosis.
STOP-BANG questionnaire
The STOP-Bang questionnaire is an 8-item yes/no tool that estimates obstructive sleep apnea risk, developed for surgical patients by Frances Chung and colleagues in 2008.