Karnofsky index

A scale for the measurement of performance status to quantify the general wellbeing and activities of daily life of cancer patients. Patients are scored from 100 to 0, where 100 is “perfect” health, and 0 is death. Doctors occasionally assign performance scores in between standard intervals of 10. The primary purpose of the Karnofsky index was to evaluate a patient’s ability to survive chemotherapy for cancer.