Many seniors seek long-term care benefits from Medicaid because they don’t have a long-term care policy or the money to pay for care themselves. In order to qualify for benefits, Medicaid requires a ...

Quality of Life Research, Vol. 23, No. 3 (April, 2014), pp. 815-824 (10 pages) Purpose To develop and validate a new functional assessment of chronic illness therapy (FACIT) measure of satisfaction ...

Quality of Life Research, Vol. 14, No. 5 (Jun., 2005), pp. 1427-1432 (6 pages) This report describes the reliability and validity of a French version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - ...

Traditional addiction treatment often focuses on managing symptoms through standardized protocols, typically centered on behavioral therapy, medication or a 12-step program. While these methods can be ...

The five-phase validation process involved 854 patients with cancer and 15 oncology specialists. The initial pool of 370 overlapping items for breast, lung, and colorectal cancer was generated by open ...

Reliability and Validity of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–Ovarian Authors: Karen Basen-Engquist, Diane Bodurka-Bevers, Mary A. Fitzgerald, Kimberly Webster, David Cella, Shaohua Hu, and ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

A functional assessment is a key part of any occupational health consultation, yet effective history-taking is something many coming into the profession have to learn from scratch. Helena Brady looks ...

Functional capacity evaluation can be a critical part of assessing fitness for work, but it is not always well understood. Nicola Suckley, occupational health national accounts director at Connect ...

Operationally define challenging behaviors. Challenging behaviors should be defined in terms that are specific, observable, and measureable (i.e., one can see and count the behaviors). Be specific ...