Ifudu et al used a modified Karnofsky scale to evaluate
patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis. This uses functional performance
and disability to stratify the patient. The authors are from State University
of New York Health Science Center in Brooklyn,
New York.
|
Category
|
Status
|
Score
|
|
independent
|
normal function, without disability
|
96 - 100
|
|
|
full activities, with minor signs and symptoms
|
91 - 95
|
|
|
usual activities, requires effort
|
81 - 90
|
|
|
can do most out-of-home activities
|
76 - 80
|
|
|
limited to home
|
70 - 75
|
|
needs assistant
|
for errands
|
65 - 69
|
|
|
for meal preparations
|
60 - 64
|
|
|
for bathing or dressing (activities of daily living)
|
55 - 59
|
|
|
home attendent but not totally disabled
|
50 - 54
|
|
totally disabled
|
living at home
|
45 - 49
|
|
|
living in nursing home
|
40 - 44
|
|
hospitalized
|
fair condition
|
35 - 39
|
|
|
poor condition
|
30 - 34
|
|
|
progressive fatal process
|
< 30
|
• The original
table assigns "usual activities with effort" as 81 - 94, which
overlaps with "minor signs and symptoms". Since all of the other
values did not overlap, I reassigned the values so that there was no overlap.