… association between patients’ performance status and the effect of chemotherapy on QOL
in the last week of life. We hypothesize that patients with good performance status who receive …

… We sought to examine the association between KPS and mortality in waitlisted patients
with cirrhosis. Our hypothesis was that patients with worse performance status would have …

… in patients with worse performance status (all P < 0.001). Patients with poorer performance
status more … In the Cox proportional hazards model, performance status was an independent …

… health status using age and major comorbidities [1, 3, 4]. One additional domain of chronic
health status is functional capacity or performance status (PS), which estimates a patient’s …

… the impact of disease on the patient. Loss of function is … In cancer therapy clinical trials,
performance status has been … to performance status in prognostic stratification of patients …

… As our patients were all referred to the PCS, their symptoms may have been subject to … ,
age, and performance status data all suggest they represent the reality of patients with advanced …

… In addition, several studies demonstrated that baseline performance status is an important
independent prognostic factor for survival [5]. Moreover, patients with poor performance status …

… performance status had been discussed. The performance status of an individual patient
was rated on a numerical scale from 0-100 representing a patient's ability to perform normal …

… The Karnofsky Performance Status appears to be the most widely used scale for objective
assessment of medical patients' quality of life. Evidence for its reliability and validity is …

… patients were identified by providers as end of life, if at all. However, this study illuminates
the symptom burden and performance status in … severity and performance status in Ontario's …