{"id":2402,"date":"2011-12-30T11:52:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T11:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/onck\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T20:28:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:28:25","slug":"onck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/onck\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Karnofsky Performance Status Scale (KPS) was designed to measure the level of patient activity and medical care requirements. It is a general measure of patient independence and has been widely used as a general assessment of patient with cancer.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong> Karnofsky performance status scale<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 8.56164%; text-align: center;\"><strong> Value<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 43.6644%;\"><strong> Level of functional capacity<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 47.774%;\"><strong> Definition<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 8.56164%; text-align: center;\">100<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 43.6644%;\">Normal, no complaints, no evidence of disease<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 47.774%;\" rowspan=\"3\">Able to carry on normal activity and to work; no special care needed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 8.56164%; text-align: center;\">90<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 43.6644%;\">Able to carry on normal activity, minor signs or symptoms of disease<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 8.56164%; text-align: center;\">80<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 43.6644%;\">Normal activity with effort, some signs or symptoms of disease<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 8.56164%; text-align: center;\">70<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 43.6644%;\">Cares for self, unable to carry on normal activity or to do active work<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 47.774%;\" rowspan=\"3\">Unable to work; able to live at home and care for most personal needs; various degrees of assistance needed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 8.56164%; text-align: center;\">60<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 43.6644%;\">Requires occasional assistance, but is able to care for most needs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 8.56164%; text-align: center;\">50<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 43.6644%;\">Requires considerable assistance and frequent medical care<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 8.56164%; text-align: center;\">40<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 43.6644%;\">Disabled, requires special care and assistance<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 47.774%;\" rowspan=\"5\">Unable to care for self; requires equivalent of institutional or hospital care; disease may be progressing rapidly<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 8.56164%; text-align: center;\">30<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 43.6644%;\">Severely disabled, hospitalization is indicated although death is not imminent<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 8.56164%; text-align: center;\">20<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 43.6644%;\">Hospitalization is necessary, very sick, active supportive treatment necessary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 8.56164%; text-align: center;\">10<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 43.6644%;\">Moribund, fatal processes progressing rapidly<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 8.56164%; text-align: center;\">0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 43.6644%;\">Dead<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The Karnofsky score runs from 100 to 0, where 100 is &#8220;perfect&#8221; health and 0 is death.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Yates JW, Chalmer B, McKegney FP. Evaluation of patients with advanced cancer using the Karnofsky performance status. Cancer. 1980 Apr 15;45(8):2220-4. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/7370963\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Schag CC, Heinrich RL, Ganz PA. Karnofsky performance status revisited: reliability, validity, and guidelines. J Clin Oncol. 1984 Mar;2(3):187-93. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/6699671\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kelly CM, Shahrokni A. Moving beyond Karnofsky and ECOG Performance Status Assessments with New Technologies. J Oncol. 2016;2016:6186543. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/27066075\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Created: Jan 25, 2012<br \/>\nUpdate: Mar 25, 2025<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[452,543,1128,1129,1130,457,547],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oncology","tag-escala","tag-estado","tag-karnofsky","tag-kps","tag-performance","tag-scale","tag-status"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10492,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions\/10492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}