Galen eCalcs - Calculator: Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS)

Description

The Edmonton System Assessment System (ESAS) tool is designed to provide a clinical profile of nine symptoms commonly found in cancer patients. The evaluated symptoms are pain, tiredness, nausea, depression, anxiety, drowsiness, appetite, wellbeing, and shortness of breath. These severity levels are intended to be evaluated at the actual time of assessment on a scale of 0 -10. There is an additional 10th measure that accepts free text. This allows the provider to track an additional measure of their choice.

Calculator Search/Filter Keywords

At the calculator level, eCalcs comes delivered with default keywords that can be leveraged in the "Search/Filter" field to enable Specialty or System driven calculator searching.

Specialties

• Family Medicine
• Internal Medicine
• Psychiatry

Systems

• Nervous

Calculator Configuration Options

Preference Name	Valid Range	Description
Publishing	Checked / Unchecked	When checked the calculator will display for users on the front end. When unchecked, the calculator WILL NOT display for users on the front end.
Orderable Item Override	(BLANK) / G-ESAS	“(BLANK)” indicates that the global configuration options for Orderable Item will be used. “G-ESAS” indicates that the calculator specific value will be used and can display the specific calculator name in the output.

Calculator Inputs

Input	Mapping Type	Description
Anxiety Level	Result	Patient’s level of anxiety at the time of assessment
Appetite Level	Result	Patient’s level of appetite at the time of assessment
Depression Level	Result	Patient level of depression at the time of assessment
Drowsiness Level	Result	Patient’s level of drowsiness at the time of assessment
Nausea Level	Result	Patient’s level of nausea at the time of assessment
Other Level	Result	Patient’s level of a provider-specified criteria at the time of assessment
Pain Level	Result	Patient’s pain level at the time of assessment
Shortness of Breath Level	Result	Patient’s shortness of breath level at the time of assessment
Tiredness Level	Result	Patient’s level of tiredness at the time of assessment
Wellbeing Level	Result	Patient’s level of wellbeing at the time of assessment

Calculator Outputs

Output	Mapping Type	Description
Anxiety Level	Result	Patient’s level of anxiety at the time of assessment
Appetite Level	Result	Patient’s level of appetite at the time of assessment
Depression Level	Result	Patient level of depression at the time of assessment
Drowsiness Level	Result	Patient’s level of drowsiness at the time of assessment
Nausea Level	Result	Patient’s level of nausea at the time of assessment
Other Level	Result	Patient’s level of a provider-specified criteria at the time of assessment
Pain Level	Result	Patient’s pain level at the time of assessment
Shortness of Breath Level	Result	Patient’s shortness of breath level at the time of assessment
Tiredness Level	Result	Patient’s level of tiredness at the time of assessment
Wellbeing Level	Result	Patient’s level of wellbeing at the time of assessment

References

https://www.cancercare.on.ca/common/pages/UserFile.aspx?fileId=13262
http://www.npcrc.org/files/news/edmonton_symptom_assessment_scale.pdf