Process / pipelineRapid Fatigue Assessment
Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI)
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.
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- 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. DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19990301)85:5<1186::AID-CNCR24>3.0.CO;2-N ↗
- Cleeland, C. S., Mendoza, T. R., Wang, X. S., et al. (2000). Assessing symptom distress in cancer patients: the M.D. Anderson Symptom Inventory. Cancer, 89(7), 1634–1646. DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(20001001)89:7<1634::AID-CNCR29>3.0.CO;2-S ↗