METHOD A prospective study was made of 50 patients with already diagnosed COPD in a private medical care setting. The impact of COPD-related symptoms on their health status was assessed using the COPD Assessment Test (CAT), which consists of 8 questions with Likert-type responses of 0-5, ...
摘要: I appreciate the questions posed by Dr Kocks and colleagues following our article in CHEST[1] concerning the responsiveness of the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) for the COPD Assessment Test (CAT). They discuss two m?
BackgroundThe COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) assessment test (CAT) is a recently introduced, simple to use patient-completed quality of life instrument that contains eight questions covering the impact of symptoms in COPD. It is not known how the CAT score performs in the context of...
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. The Regents tests contain questions requiring selected responses, short constructed responses (i.e., the examinee provides a numerical answer), and more expansive constructed responses (i.e., the examinee needs to provide a proof for a particular theorem). A somewhat comparable example that ...
The development of a new questionnaire would need to incorporate greater involvement of patients during item development combined with additional face- and content-validity to help ensure that questions are relevant to the patient. 3. Validation comparator: Physicians Global Assessment (PGA) In the ...
OBJECTIVE AND METHODS: To determine the appropriate questions and tests for recognizing dyspnea, 295 general practitioners questioned 1991 patients with or at risk of COPD in this cross-sectional study. After a brief training session, the physicians were asked to assess respiratory function with a ...
Symptoms like cough, phlegm, and excess mucus occur in asthma but are more often associated with COPD. Questions about these symptoms were not selected for the BHQ. This may have been due to the fact that the item generation was performed in predominantly asthmatic patients (Table 1). Of ...
* 7. Please answer all three questions for each person in your household.First, indicate the ages of each household member. Second, mark what best describes each person's health condition. Third, mark those who are disabled. 17 years and under 18-44 years 45-64 years 65+ Excellent Conditi...
With respect to pathological dyspnea, several questions need to be answered: Is the pathological dyspnea ... CP Criée,G Laier-Groeneveld,U Hüttemann - Springer Berlin Heidelberg 被引量: 1发表: 1992年 Respiratory and Peripheral Muscle Assessment in the Intensive Care Unit Atrophy and weakness ...