| Autor: |
C Panciroli, Laia Vilà, Giuseppe Lucente, Roser García, J.M. Velarde, Sira Domenech, S. Villà, Carmen Balana, Anna Estival |
| Rok vydání: |
2017 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Journal of Molecular Biomarkers & Diagnosis. |
| ISSN: |
2155-9929 |
| DOI: |
10.4172/2155-9929.s2-032 |
| Popis: |
Purpose: Glioblastoma (GB) patients usually have symptoms that affect their functional status, and medical staff, as well as the patients and their caregivers, might have different perceptions about it. The performance status is important to establish a patient’s survival prediction and treatment decisions. This study was aimed to explore whether health care providers, patients, and caregivers have a common perception of patients’ functional statuses and to investigate in further studies whether the functional scales used in oncology clinical practice are objective tools to evaluate brain tumour patients. Methods: GB patients treated at our Neuro-Oncology Unit were evaluated once using Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status (ECOG) and Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) by a medical oncologist (MO), an independent investigator (II), the patient and the patient’s main caregiver. Results: Fifty patients were enrolled. Concordance in KPS evaluation among the four observers was low (Fleiss’ Kappa=0.354; p |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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