| ENTRY SPECIFICATION |
{"name": "FAST",
collected from a caregiver or, in the case of nursing home care, the nursing
home staff. The FAST Stage is the highest consecutive level of disability. For
clinical purposes, in addition to staging the level of disability, additional,
non-ordinal (nonconsecutive) deficits should be noted, since these additional
deficits are of clear clinical relevance."
},
{"id": "q8788", "type": "ChoiceQuestion", "required": true, "inline": false,
"text": "1. Check the highest consecutive level of disability:",
"intro": "The FAST scale is a functional scale designed to evaluate patients at the
moderate-severe stages of dementia. In the early stages the patient may be able
"copyright": "Copyright (c) 1984 by Barry Reisberg, M.D.",
to participate in the FAST administration but usually the information should be
collected from a caregiver or, in the case of nursing home care, the nursing
home staff. The FAST Stage is the highest consecutive level of disability. For
clinical purposes, in addition to staging the level of disability, additional,
non-ordinal (nonconsecutive) deficits should be noted, since these additional
deficits are of clear clinical relevance.",
"columns": 1,
"choices":[
{"id": "c5335", "text": " 1 No difficulty, either subjectively or objectively."},
{"id": "c5336", "text": " 2 Complains of forgetting location of objects. Subjective work difficulties."},
"restartDays": 2,
{"id": "c5337", "text": " 3 Decreased job functioning evident to co-workers. Difficulty in traveling to
new locations. Decreased organizational capacity."},
{"id": "c5338", "text": " 4 Decreased ability to perform complex tasks, e.g. planning dinner for guests,
handling personal finances (such as forgetting to pay bills), difficulty
marketing, etc."},
{"id": "c5339", "text": " 5 Requires assistance in choosing proper clothing to wear for the day, season,
or occasion, e.g. patient may wear the same clothing repeatedly, unless
supervised."},
{"id": "c5340", "text": " 6a Improperly putting on clothes without assistance or cuing (e.g. may put
street clothes on over night clothes, or put shoes on wrong feet, or have
"printTitle": "Functional Assessment Staging",
difficulty buttoning clothing) occasionally or more frequently over the past
weeks."},
{"id": "c5341", "text": " 6b Unable to bathe (shower) properly (e.g., difficulty adjusting bath-water
(shower) temperature) occasionally or more frequently over the past weeks."},
{"id": "c5342", "text": " 6c Inability to handle mechanics of toileting (e.g., forgets to flush the
toilet, does not wipe properly or properly dispose of toilet tissue)
occasionally or more frequently over the past weeks."},
{"id": "c5343", "text": " 6d Urinary incontinence (occasionally or more frequently over the past weeks)."},
{"id": "c5344", "text": " 6e Fecal incontinence (occasionally or more frequently over the past weeks)."},
{"id": "c5345", "text": " 7a Ability to speak limited to approximately a half a dozen intelligible
"content":[
different words or fewer, in the course of an average day or in the course of an
intensive interview."},
{"id": "c5346", "text": " 7b Speech ability limited to the use of a single intelligible word in an average
day or in the course of an interview (the person may repeat the word over and
over)."},
{"id": "c5347", "text": " 7c Ambulatory ability lost (cannot walk without personal assistance)."},
{"id": "c5348", "text": " 7d Cannot sit up without assistance (e.g., the individual will fall over if
there are no lateral rests [arms] on the chair)."},
{"id": "c5349", "text": " 7e Loss of ability to smile."},
{"id": "c5350", "text": " 7f Loss of ability to hold up head independently."}
{"id": "i2473", "type": "IntroText",
]}],
"rules":[
{"question": "q3909", "operator": "EQ", "value": "c241",
"skips":["q3916","q3917","q3918","q3919","q3920","q3921","q3922","q3923","q3924","q3925","q3926","q3927","q3928","q3929","q3932"]}]
}
"text": "The FAST scale is a functional scale designed to evaluate patients at the
moderate-severe stages of dementia. In the early stages the patient may be able
to participate in the FAST administration but usually the information should be
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