| KPS | Karnofsky Performance Status |
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| SAS | sarcoma amplified sequence; self-rating anxiety scale; short arm splint; Sklar Aphasia Scale; sleep ... |
| SRS | schizophrenic residual state; sex reassignment surgery; Silver-Russell syndrome; simple repeat seque... |
| GAF scale | Global Assessment of Functioning scale |
| AIMS | abnormal involuntary movement scale; aid for the impaired medical student; arthritis impact measurem... |
| KPS | Karnofsky Performance Scale |
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| KI | Karnofsky Index |
| KPS | Karnofsky Performance Score |
| AIS | ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE |
| AIMS | Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale |
| Karnofsky scale | A performance scale for rating a person's usual activities; used to evaluate a patient's progress after a therapeutic procedure. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Karnofsky, D | <person> 20th century U.S. Physician. See: Karnofsky scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| karnofsky performance score | A measure given by a physician to a patients ability to perform certain ordinary tasks: 100-normal, no complaints, 70-unable to carry on normal activity, 50-requires considerable assistance, 40 - disabled, 30 - hospitalisation recommended. (09 Oct 1997) |
| karnofsky performance status | A performance measure for rating the ability of a person to perform usual activities, evaluating a patient's progress after a therapeutic procedure, and determining a patient's suitability for therapy. It is used most commonly in the prognosis of cancer therapy, usually after chemotherapy and customarily administered before and after therapy. It was named for dr. David a. Karnofsky, an american specialist in cancer chemotherapy. (12 Dec 1998) |
| karnofsky score | A measure of the patients overall physical health, judged by their level of activity. (16 Dec 1997) |
| abbreviated injury scale | Classification system for assessing impact injury severity developed and published by the american association for automotive medicine. It is the system of choice for coding single injuries and is the foundation for methods assessing multiple injuries or for assessing cumulative effects of more than one injury. These include maximum ais (mais), injury severity score (iss), and probability of death score (pods). (12 Dec 1998) |
| absolute scale | An obsolete term for Kelvin scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| activities of daily living scale | A scale to score physical activity and its limitations, based on answers to simple questions about mobility, self-care, grooming, etc; widely used in geriatrics, rheumatology, etc. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Angstrom scale | A table of wavelengths of a large number of light rays corresponding to as many Fraunhofer's lines in the spectrum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Baume scale | A hydrometer scale for determining the specific gravity of liquids heavier and lighter than water, respectively: for liquids lighter than water, divide 140 by 130 plus the Baume degree; for liquids heavier than water, divide 145 by 145 minus the Baume degree. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Binet scale | A measure of intelligence designed for both children and adults. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Binet-Simon scale | Forerunner of individual intelligence tests, particularly the Stanford-Binet intelligence scale, and sometimes referred to as the Binet scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Brazelton's Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale | A scale used by obstetricians, paediatricians, and paediatric psychologists to assess the sensory, motor, emotional and physical development of the neonate, usually beginning at birth or in the first month of life. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brief psychiatric rating scale | A scale comprising 18 symptom constructs chosen to represent relatively independent dimensions of manifest psychopathology. The initial intended use was to provide more efficient assessment of treatment response in clinical psychopharmacology research; however, the scale was readily adapted to other uses. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Gaffky scale | A numerical rating for the classification of tuberculosis according to the number of tubercle bacilli in the sputum, ranging from 1 (one to four organisms in the whole preparation) to 9 (an average of 100 per field). Synonym: Gaffky scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Rahe-Holmes social readjustment rating scale | A widely used scale in the social and behavioural sciences that assigns values to significant life events such as marriage, birth of offspring, bereavement, loss of job; such events correlate with emotional states. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Karnofsky scale |
A measure of a patient's ability to function and carry on normal activities; scores range from 0 (nonfunctional) to 100 (one with completely normal functioning).
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