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Descriptor English: Karnofsky Performance Status
Descriptor Spanish: Estado de Ejecución de Karnofsky
Descriptor escala de Karnofsky
Scope note: Medida de la actividad para evaluar la capacidad de una persona de realizar actividades comunes, evaluando el progreso del paciente tras un procedimiento terapéutico, determinando la idoneidad del paciente para el tratamiento. Se emplea con frecuencia en el pronóstico del tratamiento del cáncer, generalmente después de la quimioterapia y por lo general administrada antes y después del tratamiento. Su nombre alude al Dr. David A. Karnofsky, especialista estadounidense en la quimioterapia del cáncer.
Descriptor Portuguese: Avaliação de Estado de Karnofsky
Descriptor French: Indice de performance de Karnofsky
Entry term(s): Index, Karnofsky
Karnofsky Index
Karnofsky Performance Status Scale
Karnofsky Scale
Performance Status, Karnofsky
Scale, Karnofsky
Status, Karnofsky Performance
Tree number(s): E05.318.308.980.438.475.456.500.500
N05.715.360.300.800.438.375.364.500.500
N06.850.520.308.980.438.475.364.500.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017567
Scope note: A performance measure for rating the ability of a person to perform usual activities, evaluating a patient's progress after a therapeutic procedure, and determining a patient's suitability for therapy. It is used most commonly in the prognosis of cancer therapy, usually after chemotherapy and customarily administered before and after therapy. It was named for Dr. David A. Karnofsky, an American specialist in cancer chemotherapy.
Allowable Qualifiers: HI history
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
Public MeSH Note: 94
History Note: 94
Related: Activities of Daily Living MeSH
Quality of Life MeSH
DeCS ID: 31374
Unique ID: D017567
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Date Established: 1994/01/01
Date of Entry: 1992/12/28
Revision Date: 2017/06/30
Karnofsky Performance Status - Preferred
Concept UI M0026630
Scope note A performance measure for rating the ability of a person to perform usual activities, evaluating a patient's progress after a therapeutic procedure, and determining a patient's suitability for therapy. It is used most commonly in the prognosis of cancer therapy, usually after chemotherapy and customarily administered before and after therapy. It was named for Dr. David A. Karnofsky, an American specialist in cancer chemotherapy.
Preferred term Karnofsky Performance Status
Entry term(s) Index, Karnofsky
Karnofsky Index
Karnofsky Performance Status Scale
Karnofsky Scale
Performance Status, Karnofsky
Scale, Karnofsky
Status, Karnofsky Performance



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