performance scale
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Introduction
Reflects patient's ability to perform activities of living.
Management
- affects decisions regarding therapy for cancer patients
- less important than cancer stage for determining prognosis[1]
- low performance status is the best predictor of poor prognosis in patients with advanced cancer[2][3][4][5]
Notes
- virtually all clinical oncology trials enroll only patients with good performance status
More general terms
More specific terms
- Barthel index
- functional independence measure (FIM)
- Karnofsky performance index (palliative performance scale)
- motor strength
- short physical performance battery (SPPB)
- WHO/EGOG performance scale; Zubrod score
Additional terms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 17, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Geriatric Review Syllabus, 9th edition (GRS9) Medinal-Walpole A, Pacala JT, Porter JF (eds) American Geriatrics Society, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kim AS, Youn CH, Ko HJ, Kim HM. The survival time of terminal cancer patients: prediction based on clinical parameters and simple prognostic scores. J Palliat Care. 2014 Spring;30(1):24-31. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24826440
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Krishnan M, Temel JS, Wright AA et al Predicting life expectancy in patients with advanced incurable cancer: a review. J Support Oncol. 2013 Jun;11(2):68-74. Review. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23967494
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Seow H, Barbera L, Sutradhar R Trajectory of performance status and symptom scores for patients with cancer during the last six months of life. J Clin Oncol. 2011 Mar 20;29(9):1151-8. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21300920 Free Article