In primary care, formal functional capacity testing is not always feasible. Guidelines for family practitioners suggest the use of dyspnoea scales to assess exercise tolerance in patients with chronic ...
This analysis is based on data from 240 patients consecutively enrolled in a cross sectional Italian multicentre study aimed at estimating BP-EP prevalence in a population of advanced cancer patients ...
Background: Numerical rating scales (NRS), and verbal rating scales (VRS) showed to be reliable and valid tools for subjective cancer pain measurement, but no one of them consistently proved to be ...