Developed by:
Donald A. Mahler (USA)

Objective:
To provide a multidimensional measurement of dyspnea based on activities of daily living in symptomatic individuals

Copyright:
Donald A. Mahler, M.D. All rights reserved.

Reference publication:
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; 85:751-8.


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1. User Agreement:

User is required to complete and sign a User Agreement in which specific conditions required by the Author are detailed.

2. Access fees:

Author's royalty fee:

- In any academic research and clinical practice: free of charge

- In commercial studies: 1000 US$ per study and per language-version requested.

These Royalty fees will need to be paid directly to Donald A. Mahler.

Other specific conditions requested by the Author are detailed in the User Agreement .

Distribution fees are requested according to the study design and context of use of the questionnaire:

- In not-funded academic research (1) and individual clinical practice: free of charge

- In funded academic research (2): 300 €* per study + 50 €* per language version

- In commercial studies (3) involving "for-profit" organizations: 600 €* per study + 250 €* per language version

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(2) Funded academic research: projects receiving funding from commerce, government, EU should anticipate paying the corresponding fees.

(3) Commercial studies (industry, CRO, any for-profit companies).


Performing new translations:

Commercial and/or international studies:

For the production of new translations to be used in commercial studies, each translation shall be coordinated by MAPI Institute.

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