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  2. Veterans benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder in the ...

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    A survey of C&P examiners (psychologists) revealed that 85% "never" or "rarely" used the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS), [99] [100] for PTSD compensation and pension exams, [99] even though a VA Best Practice Manual recommends its use during C&P exams, [101] and research has shown that using the CAPS improves PTSD C&P exam reliability ...

  3. Injury Severity Score - Wikipedia

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    The ISS is based (see below) upon the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS). To calculate an ISS for an injured person, the body is divided into six ISS body regions. These body regions are: Head or neck – including cervical spine; Face – including the facial skeleton, nose, mouth, eyes and ears; Chest – thoracic spine and diaphragm

  4. Disability Rating Scale - Wikipedia

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    The Disability Rating Scale (DRS) was developed as a way to track a traumatic brain injury patient from 'Coma to Community'. The scale was used to rate the effects of injury and decide how long recovery might take. The rating gives insight into the cognitive impairment of the individual with the TBI. [1]

  5. Inter-rater reliability - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, inter-rater reliability (also called by various similar names, such as inter-rater agreement, inter-rater concordance, inter-observer reliability, inter-coder reliability, and so on) is the degree of agreement among independent observers who rate, code, or assess the same phenomenon.

  6. Beck Depression Inventory - Wikipedia

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    According to Beck's publisher, 'When Beck began studying depression in the 1950s, the prevailing psychoanalytic theory attributed the syndrome to inverted hostility against the self.' [3] By contrast, the BDI was developed in a novel way for its time; by collating patients' verbatim descriptions of their symptoms and then using these to structure a scale which could reflect the intensity or ...

  7. Modified Rankin Scale - Wikipedia

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    The scale was originally introduced in 1957 by Dr. John Rankin of Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland as a 5-level scale ranging from 1 to 5. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was then modified by either van Swieten et al. [ 5 ] or perhaps Prof. C. Warlow's group at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh for use in the UK-TIA study in the late 1980s to include ...

  8. Success rate - Wikipedia

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    Success rate is the fraction or percentage of success among a number of attempts to perform a procedure or task. It may refer to: Call setup success rate; When success refers to attempts to induce pregnancy, then pregnancy rate is used: Artificial insemination § Success rates; In vitro fertilisation § Success rates

  9. Success likelihood index method - Wikipedia

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    The endpoints of each individual PSF, as identified by the expert, are then assigned the values 1 and 9 on a linear scale. Using this scale, the expert is required to assign to each task a rating, between the two end points, which accurately reflects, using their judgement, the conditions occurring in the task in question.