Medical Scale

Context:
- It can range from being a Physical Medical Scale to being a Psychological Medical Scale,
- It can range from being a Symptomp Severity Scale to being a Medical Monitoring Scale.
- It can be essential in clinical practice as they provide quantitative data which can be vital for diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment.
- It can be influenced by various factors, including the clinician's experience.
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Example(s):
- a Physical Medical Scales, such as body mass index (BMI).
- a Psychological Medical Scales, such as to assess mental health conditions.
- a Pain Medical Scales, are used to evaluate the intensity of pain experienced by a patient.
- an Assessment Medical Scales, such as the APGAR score used to evaluate the severity and characteristics of various medical conditions.
- a Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale.
- a Clinical Scale.
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Counter-Example(s):
- A Kitchen Scale used for measuring ingredients.
- A Postal Scale used for weighing letters and parcels.
See: Medical Test, Scale (Ratio), Depression Screening and Assessment Tool, Medical Scoring System‎, Assessment of Injury.

References

(Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Medical_scales Retrieved:2023-6-19.
- Medical scales are scales used to describe or assess medical conditions.

(K Huang, M Li, Y Xiao, L Wu, Y Li, Y Yang, 2022) ⇒ K Huang, M Li, Y Xiao, L Wu, Y Li, Y Yang. (2022). “The application of medical scale in the treatment of plantar warts: analysis and prospect", Journal of Dermatological Treatment. Taylor & Francis.
- QUOTE: "The medical scale that can be used to evaluate the degree of pain in …"

(L Ordóñez-Mayán, C Represas, X Miguéns, 2015) ⇒ L Ordóñez-Mayán, C Represas, X Miguéns. (2015). “How reliable is the Spanish bodily harm assessment scale?", Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine. Elsevier.
- QUOTE: "This study demonstrates the unreliability of the Spanish medical scale for the assessment of injury as described in the RDL 8/2004. The scale should adopt the measurement systems."

(T Kakiashvili, WW Koczkodaj, 2012) ⇒ T Kakiashvili, WW Koczkodaj. (2012). “Improving the medical scale predictability by the pairwise comparisons method: Evidence from a clinical data study", Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. Elsevier.
- QUOTE: "In the clinical practice of psychiatry, presence or absence of particular symptoms is based on the subjective interpretation, by the clinician, of mental and behavioural descriptions."

(Z Wang, Z Hou, Y Gao, Q Liu, 2008) ⇒ Z Wang, Z Hou, Y Gao, Q Liu. (2008). “Feature Weight and Its Application in Weight Determination of Medical Scale Items", Fourth International Conference on Natural Computation. IEEE.
- QUOTE: "Because the medical scale often aims to diagnose the patient more accurately, we choose the classification accuracy rate base on certain classification algorithm as the fitness function."

(D McGee, TC Jessee, MH Stone, D Blessing, 1992) ⇒ D McGee, TC Jessee, MH Stone, D Blessing. (1992). “Leg and hip endurance adaptations to three weight-training programs", J Appl Sport Sci Res.
- QUOTE: “Body mass was measured on a medical scale. Cycle endurance time (CT) was measured with the subjects riding (60 rpm) at 30 watts (two minutes), 120 watts (two minutes) and 265."