Artikel: 'The 'distress-barometer': validation of method of combining the distress thermometer with a rated complained scale.' (2009)
Door kristin.amssoms op Do, 27/11/2014 - 10:18
Screening instruments may enhance the clinician's ability to detect elevated levels of distress in cancer patients, but these are often neither suitable nor effective for the routine of daily care for cancer patients. The newly developed Distress Barometer (DB) was intended to provide medical doctors with a convenient tool to interpret 'at single glance' the nature and the intensity of distress in ambulatory cancer patients. The DB, i.e. a combination of the Distress Thermometer (DT) and a new tool, the Colored Complaint Scale was developed to improve the specificity of distress screening without decreasing the sensitivity of the Distress Thermometer.
Bauwens S, Baillon C, Distelmans W, Theuns P (2009). The 'distress-barometer': validation of method of combining the distress thermometer with a rated complained scale. Psycho Oncology, online 30 sep 2008, Vol 8 issue 5 p 534-542 (may 2009).