Current opinion in supportive and palliative care
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Curr Opin Support Palliat Care · Jun 2008
ReviewMeasurement of dyspnoea in the clinical rather than the research setting.
Refractory dyspnoea is a common and difficult to treat symptom in advanced disease. Accurate assessment helps to guide treatment and prognosis. ⋯ Despite a variety of measurement tools none can be recommended as gold standard for the assessment of dyspnoea. A combination of unidimensional and multidimensional tools seems to be the best for clinical assessment. Measurement of dyspnoea has to be seen in context with the person's history, physical examination and diagnostic tests.