Developing and Validating a Novel Tool to Enhance Functional Status Assessment: The Tennessee Functional Status Questionnaire (TFSQ)

Conclusions:
The TFSQ is a brief and efficient assessment of patient function, standardized to METs and validated against the DASI. Our study suggests that many patients may have the functional reserve to increase daily physical activity and that factors such as changes in activity, pain, and recent acute care interaction may lower functional capacity.

Source: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine - February 9, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Vanterpool, S. G., Heidel, R. E., Snyder, K., Keil, T., Contreras, C., Hartman, A., Higdon, R., Jeter, J. Tags: Original Research Source Type: research