| English |
| karnofsky performance scale |
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| Attestation |
3
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| Part of speech |
Noun syntagm
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| Grammatical label |
Countable
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| Variant |
Karnofsky scale
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| Definition |
A measure given by a physician to a patients ability to perform certain ordinary tasks: 100-normal, no complaints, 70-unable to carry on normal activity, 50-requires considerable assistance, 40 - disabled, 30 - hospitalisation recommended.
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| Definition source |
Cancerweb. OMD – On-line Medical Dictionary
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| Context |
Two of these patients survive with complete resolution of chronic GVHD and one has residual GVHD with a Karnofsky score of 80. Of 63 patients aged 17 years or older, three developed moderate or severe chronic GVHD, and two of these died (one from mushroom poisoning and one from infection associated with GVHD) and one survives with persistent chronic GVHD and a Karnofsky score of 80.
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| Context source |
Lucarelli, G., et al. (1996). ‘Marrow transplantation for patients with thalassemia: results in class 3 patients’. Blood 87(5):2082-8. (RISCEN78)
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| Subject field |
Haemopoiesis
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| Sub-field (level 1) |
Thalassemias
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| Related concept |
Graft-Versus-Host Disease, follow-up, allogeneic bone marrow transplantation
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| it |
Scala Karnofsky
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| Reliability code |
3
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