Preferred Label : Transition Dyspnea Index Clinical Classification;
NCIt related terms : TDI01; TDI;
NCIt definition : A standardized rating scale developed by Mahler et al in 1984, which is a general
scale used to measure the changes in dyspnea severity from the baseline as established
by the Baseline Dyspnea Index (BDI). The questionnaire contains 3 categories of 24
items change in functional impairment, change in magnitude of task, change in magnitude
of effort. The instrument is scored on a seven-grade scale for each category, where
grade -3 represents major deterioration and grade 3 represents major improvement.;
Alternative definition : CDISC: Transition Dyspnea Index (TDI) (Mahler DA, Weinberg DH, Wells CK, Feinstein
AR. The measurement of dyspnea. Contents, interobserver agreement, and physiologic
correlates of two new clinical indexes. Chest 1984, 85: 751-758).;
Origin ID : C106694;
UMLS CUI : C3714807;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
Semantic type(s)
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