The Global Assessment of Functioning, or GAF, scale is used to rate how serious a mental illness may be. It measures how much a person's symptoms affect their day-to-day life on a scale of 0 to 100.

The Braden scale is a tool composed of six subscales for patient assessment: sensory perception ... concluded that BS in its original form has inadequate validity for ICU patients 21. Still, it ...

acute care providers must perform a skin check and risk assessment for pressure injury upon admission and every 12 to 24 hours thereafter, using a standardized instrument such as the Braden Scale ...

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Background: The Finnish patient classification system RAFAELA consists of three parts: 1) daily patient classification of nursing intensity using the Oulu Patient Classification instrument, 2) ...

The assessment tool, introduced in 1987, combined ease of use with accuracy in prediction at all levels of health care. The Braden Scale now is widely used in American hospitals and nursing homes ...

The specific objectives are to validate the LPD scale for subjects cared for at home; and to compare LPD to the Braden scale for internal validity. Method: This multicenter, cross-sectional study was ...

To do that, we had seven men and eight women step on an electronic lab scale, which we used as a control, then weighed them four times over two days on each of the scales. Rating a body-fat scale ...

Accordingly, nurses are well-advised to consider intrinsic/extrinsic and static/dynamic factors not included in the Braden Scale during routine HAPrI/DRPrI risk assessment. Awareness of the risk ...