self-reported-symptoms
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Measuring clinically relevant outcomes
An easy - and free - way for therapists to assess clinical progress is to use an analogue scale.This can be a numeric scale such as the one developed in 1932 by Rensis Likert (1) to measure attitudes. Typically a 5- or 7-point ordinal scale, respondents rate the degree to which they agree or disagree with a statement. It is essentially a rating scale, usually presented as a score between 1 - 5 or 1 - 10, where the person selects the number to reflect the perceived quality of a product or servic
Almost all women treated for vulvar cancer will have symptoms of lymphoedema in the first 2 years
One of the most important things about this study is that it used self-reported-symptoms (SRS) to determine if lymphoedema was present,...