Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (MSAS)	Εργαλείο Αξιολόγησης της Ήπιας Κόπωσης (Brief Fatigue Inventory - BFI)
Πεδίο	Ογκολογική Νοσηλευτική	Ογκολογική Νοσηλευτική
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1994	1999
Δημιουργός	Russell Portenoy	Tito Mendoza and Charles Cleeland
Τύπος	Patient self-report multisymptom prevalence and distress scale	Patient self-report brief fatigue scale
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Portenoy, R. K., Thaler, H. T., Kornblith, A. B., et al. (1994). The Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale: an instrument for the evaluation of symptom prevalence, characteristics and distress. Eur J Cancer, 30A(9), 1326–1336.	Mendoza, T. R., Wang, X. S., Cleeland, C. S., et al. (1999). The rapid assessment of fatigue severity in cancer patients: use of the Brief Fatigue Inventory. Cancer, 85(5), 1186–1196.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	MSAS, MSAS-SF	BFI
Συναφείς	4	5
Σύνοψη	The Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale is a comprehensive multisymptom instrument that captures both prevalence and distress of 32 cancer-related symptoms (full version) or 10 core symptoms (short form). Developed by Portenoy and colleagues at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 1994, the MSAS is designed for detailed symptom profiling in oncology research and clinical practice, enabling identification of symptom clusters and assessment of physical and psychological symptom burden separately.	The Brief Fatigue Inventory is a 9-item patient self-report instrument specifically designed for rapid, repeated assessment of cancer-related fatigue severity and its functional impact. Developed by Mendoza, Cleeland, and colleagues at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in 1999, the BFI is optimized for use in busy oncology clinics, allowing comprehensive fatigue profiling in 2–3 minutes without sacrificing clinical validity.