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Obtaining knowledge about a patient's usual functioning can present a challenge in settings with high staff or patient turnover (e.g. emergency department) [ 25] and where such enquiries can be time-consuming.
Respondents initiated, on average, an additional 3.6 glucose monitoring tests, and did not resume usual functioning for an average of 3.4 hours after the NSNHE.
and no need to know the patient's usual functioning.
Fatigue is a common condition in patients with cancer that affects quality of life and interferes with usual functioning.
For some cognitive domains, such as being easily distracted, the interRAI-AC distinguishes between "Behaviour not present" = 0, "Behaviour present, consistent with usual functioning" = 1 and "Behaviour present, different from usual functioning" = 2.
Further, the GHQ12 measures deviations from people's usual functioning in the previous few weeks and therefore cannot detect chronic conditions.
For example, the Cognition section of the interRAI-AC interrogates acute change in mental status from the person's usual functioning.
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network defined cancer-related fatigue as "a distressing, persistent, subjective sense of physical, emotional and/or cognitive tiredness, related to cancer or cancer treatment, that is not proportional to recent activity and interferes with usual functioning" [ 4].
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) [ 34] defines CRF as "a distressing, persistent, subjective sense of physical, emotional and/or cognitive tiredness or exhaustion related to cancer or cancer treatment that is not proportional to recent activity and interferes with usual functioning".
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network defines CRF as a distressing, persistent, subjective sense of physical, emotional, and/or cognitive tiredness or exhaustion related to cancer or cancer treatment that is not proportional to recent activity and that interferes with usual functioning [ 3].
A moderate event interferes to some extent with a participant's usual functioning; an example is a migraine headache.
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