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performance scale
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
Related
functional assessment
Specific
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
General
numerical rating scale (NRS)
References
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 17,
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2015
- Geriatric Review Syllabus, 9th edition (GRS9)
Medinal-Walpole A, Pacala JT, Porter JF (eds)
American Geriatrics Society, 2016
- 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: 24826440
- 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: 23967494
- 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: 21300920 Free Article