WASHINGTON – Assessments of a person’s ability to function at work provide important information for disability determinations, and many validated tests are available to assess work-related physical ...

PURPOSE: To report the reliability and validity of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–Ovarian (FACT-O) in a consecutive series of outpatients with epithelial ovarian cancer. PATIENTS AND ...

Can a one-minute sit-to-stand test predict long-term outcomes in pulmonary hypertension? New data suggest it can. Read more.

questionnaire In patients with schizophrenia researchers found that the Beijing Performance-based Functional Ecological Test is valid in assessment of functional capacity. Researchers have developed a ...

Reducing Treatment-Related Morbidity and Mortality in Early-Stage Hodgkin’s Disease and Why the Recent Southwest Oncology Group Trial Is Not the Way to Go PURPOSE: This is the first report on the ...

Screening for functional deficits in older adults Assessment of functional impairments in an aging population is one of the most daunting challenges facing primary-care clinicians. HOW TO TAKE THE ...

WASHINGTON, DC—Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) seems to have the edge over functional testing for the assessment of suspected CAD in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes, real-world data show.

Background The FMS (Functional Movement Screening) is a functional assessment based on mobility and stability and mechanical factors which contributes to develop injury prevention programs. Objective ...