We have compiled the following list of assessment and research pain and palliative care tools available for free as a service to the palliative care community worldwide
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Achieving Balance in National Opioids Control Policy:
Guidelines for Assessment (Available in 14 languages)
After-Death Bereaved Family Interview
http://www.chcr.brown.edu/pcoc/toolkit.htm
Brief Fatigue Inventory
http://www.mdanderson.org/pdf/bfi.pdf
Brief Pain Inventory (long form)
http://www.mdanderson.org/pdf/bpilong.pdf
Brief Pain Inventory (short form)
http://www.mdanderson.org/pdf/bpisf.pdf
CAGE Questionnaire
http://www.mdanderson.org/pdf/cage.pdf
Caregiver Burden Scale
http://www.ku.edu/~kugeron/program/Appendix.pdf
Caregiver Strain Questionnaire
Click Here
Clinical Calculators - Calculators from A-a Gradient Calculator, Body Mass Index (BMI), Creatinine clearance (Adult), Digoxin Dosing, Drip Rate Table Creator, Fentanyl Patch Converter, Narcotic analgesic converter, Steroid Converter, Temperature Converter Celsius-Fahrenheit to Warfarin Therapy and many more!
http://www.globalrph.com/calculators.htm
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Edmonton Functional Assessment Tool (EFAT)
http://www.palliative.org/PC/ClinicalInfo/AssessmentTools/Efat.pdf
ECOG Performance Status
http://www.ecog.org/general/perf_stat.html
Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS)
http://www.palliative.org/PC/ClinicalInfo/AssessmentTools/esas.pdf
Edmonton Staging System
http://www.mdanderson.org Click Here
End of Life Care and Outcomes - US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
http://www.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/evidence/pdf/eolcare/eolcare.pdf
6.1 MB (LARGE FILE)
End of Life Chart Review - Administrative Information
http://www.gwu.edu/~cicd/toolkit/toolcharts.htm
Epidemiological Methods in Studies of Symptoms in Advanced Disease
http://symptomresearch.nih.gov/chapter_19/index.htm
Epidemiology of Dying and End-of-Life Care (EDELE) (USA based data)
www.edeledata.org
Fair Tests of Treatments in Health Care
Click Here
FAMCARE Scale
http://www.promotingexcellence.org/downloads/measures/famcare.pdf
FAST - Stages of Alzheimer's disease
http://ec-online.net/Knowledge/articles/alzstages.html
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Geriatric Depression Scale (In several languages)
http://www.stanford.edu/~yesavage/GDS.html
Grief Resolution Index
Click Here
Hamilton Depression Rating Scale
http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/bill54/depresstest.htm
Herth Hope Index
http://www.promotingexcellence.org/downloads/measures/herth_hope_index.pdf
Karnofsky Performance Scale
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~drstall/karnofsky.html
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MD Anderson Symptom Assessment System
http://www.mdanderson.org/pdf/symptomassessment.pdf
McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire
http://www.promotingexcellence.org/downloads/measures/mcgill_qol.pdf
McGill Pain Questionnaire (Melzack 1975)
McGill Pain Questionnaire (Short-Form) (Melzack 1987)
Missoula Demonstration Project Community Survey
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Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale
Click Here Scoring: Click Here
Mini Mental State Questionnaire
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Monitoring Financial Flows for Health Research: The changing landscape of health research for development Global Forum for Health Research, 2006.
Click Here
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Palliative Outcomes Scale
http://www2.edc.org/lastacts/archives/archivesJan00/POSReg.asp
Palliative Performance Scale version 2 (PPSv2)
http://www.palliative.org/PC/ClinicalInfo/AssessmentTools/PPS.pdf
Partnership for Caring Advanced Directive Check List
http://www.partnershipforcaring.org/ToolKits/adchecklist.html
Pediatric Pain Profile
http://www.ppprofile.org.uk/
Professionals Available to Spend Time Abroad
http://www.hospicecare.com/Directories/people.htm
Quality of Care Check List
http://www.partnershipforcaring.org/ToolKits/qualitycarechecklist.html
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The BIAS FREE Framework: A practical tool for identifying and eliminating social biases in health research Mary Anne Burke and Margrit Eichler.
Global Forum for Health Research, Geneva, Switzerland, 2006
To access the document, click here
The Conduct of Systematic Research in Science
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Toolkit of Instruments to Measure End of Life Care - Patient Interview
http://www.gwu.edu/~cicd/toolkit/tool3.htm
Toolkit of Instruments to Measure End of Life Care - Surrogate After death Interview
http://www.gwu.edu/~cicd/toolkit/tool2.htm
Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale
http://www3.us.elsevierhealth.com/WOW/graphics/wong_faces.gif
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