{"id":5742,"date":"2018-01-16T12:12:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T12:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/performance-status\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T19:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:18:26","slug":"performance-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/performance-status\/","title":{"rendered":"ECOG Performance Status"},"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>This scale and criteria are used by physicians and researchers to assess how a patient&#8217;s disease\u00a0is progressing, assess how the disease affects the daily living abilities of the patient, and\u00a0determine appropriate treatment and prognosis.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>ECOG Performance Status<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 240px;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px; text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0Grade<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\"><strong>ECOG*<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px; text-align: center;\">\u00a00<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\">Fully active, able to carry on all pre-disease performance without restriction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 48px; text-align: center;\">\u00a01<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 48px;\">Restricted in physically strenuous activity but ambulatory and able to carry out work of a light or sedentary nature, e.g., light house work, office work<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 48px; text-align: center;\">\u00a02<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 48px;\">Ambulatory and capable of all selfcare but unable to carry out any work activities. Up and about more than 50% of waking hours<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px; text-align: center;\">\u00a03<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\">Capable of only limited selfcare, confined to bed or chair, more than 50% of waking hours<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 48px; text-align: center;\">\u00a04<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 48px;\">Completely disabled. Cannot carry on any selfcare. Totally confined to bed or chair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px; text-align: center;\">\u00a05<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\">Dead<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>*Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Young J, Badgery-Parker T, Dobbins T, Jorgensen M, Gibbs P, Faragher I, Jones I, Currow D. Comparison of ECOG\/WHO performance status and ASA score as a measure of functional status.\u00a0J Pain Symptom Manage. 2015 Feb;49(2):258-64. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/24996034\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Oken MM, Creech RH, Tormey DC, Horton J, Davis TE, McFadden ET, Carbone PP. Toxicity and response criteria of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group. Am J Clin Oncol. 1982 Dec;5(6):649-55. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/7165009\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Assayag J, Kim C, Chu H, Webster J. The prognostic value of Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status on overall survival among patients with metastatic prostate cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Front Oncol. 2023 Dec 15;13:1194718. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/38162494\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created: Jan 16, 2018.<br \/>\nUp-date: Mar 2, 2026.<\/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":[16,2066,543,735,1130,457,547],"class_list":["post-5742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oncology","tag-criteria","tag-ecog","tag-estado","tag-funcional","tag-performance","tag-scale","tag-status"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742","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=5742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10682,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions\/10682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}