impairment scale
1scale — 1. A standardized test for measuring psychological, personality, or behavioral characteristics. SEE ALSO: score, test. 2. SYN: squama. 3. A small thin plate of horny epithelium, resembling a fish s., cast off from the skin …
2Children's Global Assessment Scale — The Children s Global Assessment Scale (CGAS) is a numeric scale (1 through 100) used by mental health clinicians and doctors to rate the general functioning of children under the age of 18. Application Ratings on a CGAS scale should be… …
3Hearing impairment — See also: Deaf culture for the social movement.. Deaf and/or hard of hearing Classification and external resources The International Symbol for Deafness …
4Hoehn and Yahr scale — The Hoehn and Yahr scale is a commonly used system for describing how the symptoms of Parkinson s disease progress. The scale allocates stages from 0 to 5 to indicate the relative level of disability.* Stage one: Symptoms on one side of the body… …
5Expanded Disability Status Scale — The Kurtzke Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) is a method of quantifying disability in multiple sclerosis. [cite journal |author=Kurtzke JF |title=Rating neurologic impairment in multiple sclerosis: an expanded disability status scale… …
6Abbreviated Injury Scale — Die Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) bzw. vereinfachte Verletzungsskala wurde Ende der 1960er Jahre als Bewertungsskala für die Letalität von Einzelverletzungen eingeführt. Treibende Kraft für die Entwicklung war die automobile Unfallforschung in… …
7Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale — The Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale – sometimes referred to as Y BOCS – is a test to rate the severity of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms.The scale, which was designed by Dr. Wayne Goodman and his colleagues, is used… …
8Leiter International Performance Scale — or simply Leiter is a intelligence test for children and adolescents, with norms ranging from 2 to 20 years. For all ages, it yields an intelligence quotinent (IQ) and a measure of logical ability. Leiter devised an experimental edition of the… …
9NIH stroke scale — (abbreviated NIHSS)[1][2] is a scale developed by NINDS that communicates several different neurological deficits[3] upon a single axis, represented by a score from 0 to 30. A score of more than approximately 25 indicates a large stroke, and a… …
10Railway scale — Railroad Rail road (r[=a]l r[=o]d ), Railway Rail way (r[=a]l w[=a] ), n. 1. A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on …
