Beschrijving
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In medicine (oncology and other fields), performance status is an attempt to quantify cancer patients’ general well-being and activities of daily life. This measure is used to determine whether they can receive chemotherapy, whether dose adjustment is necessary, and as a measure for the required intensity of palliative care. It is also used in oncological randomized controlled trials as a measure of quality of life.There are various scoring systems. The most generally used are the Karnofsky score and the Zubrod score, the latter being used in publications by the WHO. For children, the Lansky score is used.