Mean ECOG at hospital discharge was 2 (independence for the majority of personal needs, without being able to recover job activity due to the presence of symptoms needing to remain at bed less than 50%% of the day).
There is a wide heterogeneity of definitions of subthreshold depression considering nomenclature and number of symptoms needed.
They had number of symptoms needed to fulfil the criteria for PTSD, but the symptoms were occasional, fleeting, lacked persistence and severity to justify syndromal PTSD diagnosis clinically.
Palliative patients show a high range of symptoms needing the attention of specialist medical treatment in the periprocedural period, which can be ideally provided by anaesthesiologists.
Further research is needed to quantify the severity of daily symptoms, the level of symptoms needed for patients to define themselves as in flare and to understand the support needs of RA men.
The possible attrition rate is attributed to length of the rehabilitative program, elimination of symptoms, or increase of symptoms, need for surgery, and prior attrition rate of existing randomized control trials.
There is a wide range of definitions of these subthreshold conditions, and not all of them share the same criteria related to the number of symptoms needed or the impairment present in individual functioning.
In summary, despite a relatively large number of available symptom assessment instruments, little research has been undertaken to determine the adequate coverage of symptom clusters appropriate for patients with advanced tumours, and consequently the minimum list of symptoms needed to measure these clusters.
The rationale for selecting a time window of 180 days between drug exposure and diagnosis of IBS was the minimum of six months duration of symptoms needed for IBS diagnosis (Rome III criteria) and the considerable delay that may occur between initial symptom onset and referral with eventual diagnosis by a gastroenterologist.
The problem of recall bias in these self-reports of transient symptoms needs to be considered.
