Karnofsky performance status revisited: reliability, validity, and guidelines.
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Summary
Oncologists may train themselves to use the Karnofsky Performance Status in a standard way, which should increase reliability and validity of the KPS and has implications for patients and research studies that use KPS as a stratifying variable.
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- article
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- 1984-03-01
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Keywords
Reliability (semiconductor), Medicine, Inter-rater reliability, Psychosocial, Validity
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