Validation of a German version of the NMSS (Non-Motor Symptom assessment Scale)

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
W Jost ◽  
G Fuchs ◽  
G Reifschneider ◽  
P Odin ◽  
A Storch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Symptom Assessment ◽  
Assessment Scale ◽  
Motor Symptom ◽  
German Version ◽  
Symptom Assessment Scale

Equivalência semântica da versão em português do instrumento Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (MSAS) para avaliar sintomas em pacientes oncológicos

1969 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Fernandes Da Rocha ◽  
Monique da Silva Carvalho ◽  
Ana Amélia Moraes de Lacerda ◽  
Áila Ferreira Vizeu Viana ◽  
Raquel de Souza Ramos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Symptom Assessment ◽  
Assessment Scale ◽  
Semantic Equivalence ◽  
Portuguese Version ◽  
Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale ◽  
Symptom Assessment Scale

Semantic equivalence of the Portuguese version ofthe Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (MSAS) to evaluate symptoms in cancer patients

Development and Validation of a Modified Version of the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale in a Flemish Palliative Care Population

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 475-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Claessens ◽  
Johan Menten ◽  
Paul Schotsmans ◽  
Bert Broeckaert
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Symptom Assessment ◽  
Assessment Scale ◽  
Face Validity ◽  
Patients With Cancer ◽  
Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale ◽  
The Face ◽  
Palliative Care Units ◽  
Symptom Assessment Scale ◽  
Development And Validation

Palliative cancer patients are faced with multiple symptoms that threaten their quality of life. To manage these symptoms, a reliable and valid way of registration is crucial. In this study, the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS) has been translated, modified, and tested on content, face, criterion, construct validity, and internal consistency for patients admitted to Flemish palliative care units. These aspects are tested in a descriptive, comparative, longitudinal study based on 3 convenience samples. The first consisted of 8 palliative care experts. The second sample checked the face validity and consisted of 4 patients, 5 family members, and 5 nurses. The last sample involved 23 patients admitted to 3 Flemish palliative care units. Heedful of the “new-wave” vision on validity, the translated and altered ESAS seemed a suitable instrument for the symptom assessment of patients with cancer admitted to a palliative care unit.

Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale--Swedish Version

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Browall ◽  
Elisabeth Kenne Sarenmalm ◽  
Salmir Nasic ◽  
Yvonne Wengström ◽  
Fannie Gaston-Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Symptom Assessment ◽  
Assessment Scale ◽  
Swedish Version ◽  
Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale ◽  
Symptom Assessment Scale

Symptom Management in Palliative Medicine

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy J Selvaggi ◽  
Janet L Abrahm
Keyword(s):  
Symptom Management ◽  
Symptom Control ◽  
Hot Flashes ◽  
Symptom Assessment ◽  
Symptomatic Treatment ◽  
Assessment Scale ◽  
Transdermal Fentanyl ◽  
Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale ◽  
Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale ◽  
Symptom Assessment Scale

Palliative care is an interdisciplinary specialty focused on providing comfort, communication, and support for patients, families, and professional caregivers throughout the course of a life-limiting illness. This chapter discusses assessment and treatment of symptoms and disorders that commonly contribute to patient distress during these illnesses: pain, disorders of the respiratory and gastrointestinal systems, skin disorders, hot flashes, fatigue, pruritis, insomnia, and delirium. This chapter reviews care of the imminently dying patient, discusses methods for assessing patients' symptoms, and provides two examples of valid and reliable symptom measurement systems: the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale and the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale. Achieving symptom control requires the physician to assess patient suffering in all dimensions: physical, psychological, social, and spiritual. The extent of the assessment may be modified, however, based on patients’ prognosis as well as their goals and the burden and benefit of the diagnostic intervention. A 10-step protocol for terminal wean is presented. Signs that patients are entering their final days and symptom management in the last hours of a patient's life are discussed. Tables list the modified Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale; the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale; the DOLOPLUS-2 scale (behavioral pain assessment in the elderly); relative potencies of commonly used opioids; conversions between the transdermal fentanyl patch and morphine; symptomatic treatment for dyspnea, cough, and hiccups; pharmacologic treatment of nausea and vomiting; a progressive bowel regimen for patients receiving opioid therapy; treatments for constipation; etiology-based treatment for oral problems; risk factors for pressure ulcers; and applicable medications for physical and psychological sources of distress near the end of life. This review contains 12 tables and 120 references

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