karnofsky_performance_status

Retrieves the definition and functional category for the Karnofsky Performance Status scale. The KPS allows patients to be classified as to their functional impairment. This can be used to compare effectiveness of different therapies and to assess the prognosis in individual patients.

Collection of indices and tools relating to clinical research that aid epidemiological cohort or retrospective chart review with big data. All indices and tools take commonly used lab values, patient demographics, and clinical measurements to compute various risk and predictive values for survival or further classification/stratification. References to original literature and validation contained in each function documentation. Includes all commonly available calculators available online.

Neel Agarwal

cliot

Clinical Indices and Outcomes Tools

karnofsky_performance_status function

<dl> <dt>score</dt>
<dd>Numeric. The KPS score. Must be a multiple of 10 between 0 and 100.</dd></dl>

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Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) Scale — karnofsky_performance_status

<dl>

 <dt>score</dt>
<dd>Numeric. The KPS score. Must be a multiple of 10 between 0 and 100.</dd>

</dl>

karnofsky_performance_status: Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) Scale

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