Severity Scales for Use in Primary Health Care to Assess Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
| Autor: | Sharni Lee Hardcastle, Donald Staines, Samantha Johnston, Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik, Ekua Brenu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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musculoskeletal diseases
medicine.medical_specialty Encephalomyelitis Primary health care macromolecular substances Severity of Illness Index 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Sickness Impact Profile Surveys and Questionnaires Severity of illness medicine Chronic fatigue syndrome Humans 030203 arthritis & rheumatology Fatigue Syndrome Chronic business.industry musculoskeletal neural and ocular physiology virus diseases Cognition Myalgia medicine.disease nervous system General Health Professions Physical therapy Female business Stress Psychological 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Health Care for Women International. 37:671-686 |
| ISSN: | 1096-4665 0739-9332 |
| Popis: | Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is a physical and cognitive disabling illness, characterized by severe fatigue and a range of physiological symptoms, that primarily affects women. The immense variation in clinical presentation suggests differences in severity based on symptomology and physical and cognitive functional capacities. In this article, we examine a number of severity scales used in assessing severity of patients with CFS/ME and the clinical aspects of CFS/ME severity subgroups. The use of severity scales may be important in CFS/ME because it permits the establishment of subgroups that may improve accuracy in both clinical and research settings. |
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