Transition Dyspnea Index Questionnaire

Definition 1

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. (NCI Thesaurus)

Definition 2

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). (NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

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