Performance status assessment in cancer patients. An inter-observer variability study

JB Sørensen, M Klee, T Palshof, HH Hansen - British journal of cancer, 1993 - nature.com
… ECOG performance status among 100 cancer patients by three observers 95% confidence
… Table V Simplified performance status assessment among 100 cancer patients by three …

Evaluation of patients with advanced cancer using the Karnofsky performance status

JW Yates, B Chalmer, FP McKegney - Cancer, 1980 - Wiley Online Library
… trials for patients with cancer, and potentially for patients with other chronic diseases with
a fatal outcome. The evidence assembled in this study indicates that the performance status, …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of cancer pain on performance status, mood states, and level of hope among Taiwanese cancer patients

CC Lin, YL Lai, SE Ward - Journal of pain and symptom management, 2003 - Elsevier
cancer patients. Because this study shows that cancer pain negatively affects patients'
performance status and numerous studies have documented performance status as a predictor or …

A performance status scale for head and neck cancer patients

MA List, C Ritter‐Sterr, SB Lansky - Cancer, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
… the performance status of head T and neck cancer patients is … , the psychosocial dimensions
of cancer care and the quality … evaluating the performance status of head and neck patients, …

The symptoms of advanced cancer: relationship to age, gender, and performance status in 1,000 patients

D Walsh, S Donnelly, L Rybicki - Supportive care in cancer, 2000 - Springer
patients. Age and gender analysis should be considered along with performance status in all
cancer … primary site they appear to be important predictors of morbidity in advanced cancer. …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence of poor performance status in lung cancer patients: implications for research

RC Lilenbaum, J Cashy, TA Hensing, S Young… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2008 - Elsevier
… Nearly 2 of every 5 cancer patients (39%) in this study of 2885 patients rated their PS as poor
(… for patients with advanced disease, particularly those with advanced lung cancer. Half the …

The performance status scale for head and neck cancer patients and the functional assessment of cancer therapy‐head and neck scale: a study of utility and validity

MA List, LL D'Antonio, DF Cella, A Siston… - Cancer …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
performance status and QL of head and neck cancer patients. Designed as a general QL
measure for cancer patients, … be compared with those of other patient groups, at the same time …

Symptom burden and performance status in a population‐based cohort of ambulatory cancer patients

L Barbera, H Seow, D Howell, R Sutradhar, C Earle… - Cancer, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… provincial cancer authority in Ontario has systematically collected symptom and performance
status scores in cancer outpatients by implementing 2 standardized tools in every cancer

Simple prognostic model for patients with advanced cancer based on performance status

RW Jang, VB Caraiscos, N Swami… - Journal of oncology …, 2014 - ascopubs.org
… with levels of performance status in outpatients with advanced cancer for the … performance
status alone, that could be used to estimate prognosis for patients with advanced cancer

Chemotherapy use, performance status, and quality of life at the end of life

HG Prigerson, Y Bao, MA Shah, ME Paulk… - JAMA …, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
… of all patients. But main result of this article was focused on the patients with good baseline
performance status. In … use among metastatic cancer patients stratified by performance status. …