AIM To develop a new scoring system, nutech functional scores(NFS) for assessing the patients with spinal cord injury(SCI).METHODS The conventional scale, American Spinal Injury Association's(ASIA) impairment scal...AIM To develop a new scoring system, nutech functional scores(NFS) for assessing the patients with spinal cord injury(SCI).METHODS The conventional scale, American Spinal Injury Association's(ASIA) impairment scale is a measure which precisely describes the severity of the SCI.However, it has various limitations which lead to incomplete assessment of SCI patients.We have developed a 63 point scoring system, i.e., NFS for patients suffering with SCI.A list of symptoms either common or rare that were found to be associated with SCI was recorded for each patient.On the basis of these lists, we have developed NFS.RESULTS These lists served as a base to prepare NFS, a 63 point positional(each symptom is sub-graded and get points based on position) and directional(moves in direction BAD → GOOD) scoring system.For non-progressive diseases, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 denote worst, bad, moderate, good and best(normal), respectively.NFS for SCI has been divided into different groups based on the affected part of the body being assessed, i.e., motor assessment(shoulders, elbow, wrist, fingers-grasp, fingers-release, hip, knee, ankle and toe), sensory assessment, autonomic assessment, bed sore assessment and general assessment.As probability based studies required a range of(-1, 1) or at least the range of(0, 1) to be useful for real world analysis, the grades were converted to respective numeric values.CONCLUSION NFS can be considered as a unique tool to assess the improvement in patients with SCI as it overcomes the limitations of ASIA impairment scale.展开更多
目的 比较健康调查简表(the MOS item short from health survey,SF-36)和欧洲癌症研究和治疗组织肿瘤肺癌患者生存质量量表(the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Core 30 Questionnaire,E...目的 比较健康调查简表(the MOS item short from health survey,SF-36)和欧洲癌症研究和治疗组织肿瘤肺癌患者生存质量量表(the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Core 30 Questionnaire,EORTC QLQ-LC43)在肺癌患者生活质量测定中的应用效果。方法 选取2020年9月—2022年6月158例肺癌患者作为研究对象,分别采用SF-36量表和EORTC QLQ-LC43量表调查受试对象的生活质量,采用Pearson线性相关性分析比较两种量表不同维度评分之间的相关性,以Karnofsky评分(KPS评分)功能状态评分作为效标,比较两种生存质量量表的相关性及效度。结果 SF-36量表总克朗巴赫系数为0.766,分量表克朗巴赫系数为0.493~0.849。SF-36量表的躯体功能、躯体角色、躯体疼痛、情感职能、社会活动、一般健康等6个分量表分别与EORTC QLQ-LC43量表的躯体功能、角色功能、疼痛、情绪功能、社会功能、整体生活质量的6个分量表对应,其相关系数为0.784~0.842,相关性差异有统计学意义(P<0.001)。上述对应的分量表具有中等程度的一致性(Kappa值> 0.4)。不同临床分期分组中,肺癌患者SF-36各个维度得分与肿瘤分期显著相关,肿瘤分期越晚,生存质量得分越低(P<0.001)。肺癌患者SF-36各个维度得分与患者的体力状态得分显著相关,体力状态越差,生存质量得分越低(P <0.001)。结论 与EORTC QLQ-LC43量表相比,SF-36量表在评价肺癌患者生活质量方面具有较高的一致性和区分能力,可以作为EORTC QLQ-LC43量表的替代。展开更多
文摘AIM To develop a new scoring system, nutech functional scores(NFS) for assessing the patients with spinal cord injury(SCI).METHODS The conventional scale, American Spinal Injury Association's(ASIA) impairment scale is a measure which precisely describes the severity of the SCI.However, it has various limitations which lead to incomplete assessment of SCI patients.We have developed a 63 point scoring system, i.e., NFS for patients suffering with SCI.A list of symptoms either common or rare that were found to be associated with SCI was recorded for each patient.On the basis of these lists, we have developed NFS.RESULTS These lists served as a base to prepare NFS, a 63 point positional(each symptom is sub-graded and get points based on position) and directional(moves in direction BAD → GOOD) scoring system.For non-progressive diseases, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 denote worst, bad, moderate, good and best(normal), respectively.NFS for SCI has been divided into different groups based on the affected part of the body being assessed, i.e., motor assessment(shoulders, elbow, wrist, fingers-grasp, fingers-release, hip, knee, ankle and toe), sensory assessment, autonomic assessment, bed sore assessment and general assessment.As probability based studies required a range of(-1, 1) or at least the range of(0, 1) to be useful for real world analysis, the grades were converted to respective numeric values.CONCLUSION NFS can be considered as a unique tool to assess the improvement in patients with SCI as it overcomes the limitations of ASIA impairment scale.
文摘目的 比较健康调查简表(the MOS item short from health survey,SF-36)和欧洲癌症研究和治疗组织肿瘤肺癌患者生存质量量表(the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Core 30 Questionnaire,EORTC QLQ-LC43)在肺癌患者生活质量测定中的应用效果。方法 选取2020年9月—2022年6月158例肺癌患者作为研究对象,分别采用SF-36量表和EORTC QLQ-LC43量表调查受试对象的生活质量,采用Pearson线性相关性分析比较两种量表不同维度评分之间的相关性,以Karnofsky评分(KPS评分)功能状态评分作为效标,比较两种生存质量量表的相关性及效度。结果 SF-36量表总克朗巴赫系数为0.766,分量表克朗巴赫系数为0.493~0.849。SF-36量表的躯体功能、躯体角色、躯体疼痛、情感职能、社会活动、一般健康等6个分量表分别与EORTC QLQ-LC43量表的躯体功能、角色功能、疼痛、情绪功能、社会功能、整体生活质量的6个分量表对应,其相关系数为0.784~0.842,相关性差异有统计学意义(P<0.001)。上述对应的分量表具有中等程度的一致性(Kappa值> 0.4)。不同临床分期分组中,肺癌患者SF-36各个维度得分与肿瘤分期显著相关,肿瘤分期越晚,生存质量得分越低(P<0.001)。肺癌患者SF-36各个维度得分与患者的体力状态得分显著相关,体力状态越差,生存质量得分越低(P <0.001)。结论 与EORTC QLQ-LC43量表相比,SF-36量表在评价肺癌患者生活质量方面具有较高的一致性和区分能力,可以作为EORTC QLQ-LC43量表的替代。
