Do Self-Rated Performance Status Scores Correlate With Health-Care-Provider-Scores?

University of Florida

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Other: Karnofsky Performance Status Score

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00735111

QOL-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if patients are able to self-rate their physical abilities and how these ratings compare to the ratings of their health-care provider.

Full description

The Karnofsky Performance Scale (KPS) is a highly validated and essential measuring tool across the cancer population. The scale relates to purely physical ability and covers 11 stages, ranging from normal health to death, with each stage scored as a percentage. The score is determined by the health-care provider and is based on observation and narrative patient descriptions. The purpose of this study is to compare the scores rated by the health-care provider to the scores that patients assign to themselves.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with a diagnosis of brain or spinal tumor.
• Receiving medical care under the supervision of the Principal Investigator.
• Written informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

None.

Trial design

200 participants in 1 patient group

Karnofsky Performance Status Score

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Karnofsky Performance Status Score