Description
This outcome scale has been validated against the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia, and the Calgary Depression Scale.
What is the Depression Rating Scale (DRS)?
The score from this scale is calculated from the person's ability to perform 7 ADLs.
What is the ADL Long Form?
Higher scores indicate a higher relative risk for developing a new pressure ulcer.
What is the interRAI PURS?
A score of 3 or more on this outcome scale may indicate a potential or actual problem with depression.
What is the Depression Rating Scale (DRS)?
This scale provides a measure of the person's capacity (rather than performance) to complete tasks based on items that reflect stages of loss (early, middle and late).
What is the IADL Capacity Hierarchy Scale?
Items D3 and D4 contribute to this scale's summary measure.
What is the DbSI?
Higher scores are associated with adverse outcomes, such as mortality, hospitalization, pain, caregiver stress and poor self-rated health.
What is the Changes in Health, End-Stage Disease and Signs and Symptoms (CHESS)?
This scale provides a measure of the person's ADL self-performance status based on items that reflect stages of loss (Early, middle and late loss).
What is the ADL Short Form?
This scale has been validated against the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Test for Severe Impairment (TSI).
What is Cognitive Performance Scale (CPS)?
This outcome scale uses J5a and J5b to provide an outcome summary.
What is the Pain Scale?
A higher score on this scale indicates a greater degree of cognitive impairment.
What is the CPS2?
This scale groups ADL performance levels into discrete stages of loss. Higher scores indicate greater decline in ADL performance.
What is the ADL Self-Performance Hierarchy Scale?
This scale combines 2 other scales to categorize a person based on impairment in both ADL's and IADL's.
What is the ADL-IADL Functional Scale?
This scale uses the following items verbal abuse, physical abuse, socially inappropriate or disruptive behaviour and resists care.
What is the Aggressive Behaviour Scale (ABS)?
A higher score on this scale indicates greater difficultly in communicating with others.
What is the Communication Scale?
This scale uses 6 items to detect changes in cognition and is more sensitive to early levels of cognitive decline.
What is the CPS2?