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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.
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.
SYNTAX score
The SYNTAX score is an angiographic scoring system grading the anatomical complexity of coronary artery disease, developed for the SYNTAX trial to help heart teams choose between PCI and bypass surgery.
Tap test (medicine)
The tap test is a lumbar puncture removing 30–50 mL of cerebrospinal fluid to see whether gait and cognition improve, predicting shunt benefit in normal pressure hydrocephalus.
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.
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.
TIMI risk score
The TIMI risk score is a bedside score, 0 to 7, estimating short-term risk of death, heart attack, or urgent revascularization in unstable angina and NSTEMI.
TNM staging system
The TNM staging system, also called the TNM classification, classifies cancer by tumor size, lymph node involvement, and metastasis, and is the world's most widely used staging system.
Triage
Triage (from French trier, to sort) is medical prioritization of patients by urgency, from battlefield origins with Larrey (1792) to five-level ED scales (ESI, MTS, CTAS, ATS, SATS), disaster triage, and AI systems.
Triage scale
A triage scale is a standardized scoring system used in emergency departments to rank arriving patients by clinical urgency, determining how quickly each receives assessment and treatment.
Tumor burden score
The tumor burden score (TBS) is a prognostic metric combining maximum tumor diameter and tumor number into one score, proposed in 2016 for colorectal liver metastases.
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.
Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale
The Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) grades the motor and nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson's disease; its 2008 revision, the MDS-UPDRS, is the standard in care and research.
Urodynamic testing
Urodynamic testing is the study of urine storage and evacuation by the lower urinary tract, recording bladder pressures to diagnose the cause of urinary symptoms.
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.
Vertebral bone quality score
The vertebral bone quality (VBQ) score is a dimensionless ratio from non-contrast T1-weighted lumbar MRI that assesses bone mineral density and fragility fracture risk without ionizing radiation.
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.
WHO CNS5 classification
The WHO CNS5 classification is the World Health Organization's 2021 standard for classifying brain and spinal cord tumors, combining histological and molecular features into an integrated diagnosis with a CNS WHO grade.