This application was developed by the respiratory and critical care team at the Pitié-Salpétrière hospital in Paris to facilitate the calculation of dyspnea observational scales RDOS, IC-RDOS and MV-RDOS. As dyspnea is by definition subjective, these scales do not claim to affirm the presence or absence of dyspnea but offer the possibility to strongly suspect dyspnea in noncommunicative patients in different clinical contexts.

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All scores reported in this application are only validated among adults and should not be used in pediatric contexts (see Fortney C, Campbell M.L. Development and Content Validity of a Respiratory Distress Observation Scale-Infant. Journal of palliative medicine. 2020;23: 838-841. Source)
Reference values should not be regarded as absolute indicators of health and disease. Reference intervals should be used with caution, since values for healthy individuals often overlap significantly with values for persons with disease.

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Since dyspnea is by definition subjective, these scales do not claim to affirm the presence or absence of dyspnea but offer the possibility of strongly suspecting dyspnea in noncommunicative patients in appropriate clinical settings (pulmonology, critical care, palliative care).

DOS-calc is an application for clinical decision support and is not a substitute for the professional judgment of the health care professional in diagnosing and treating patients.