Purpose: To evaluate a person with a serious illness using the Karnofsky perfomance scale.				Citations with documentation. 01.01.01	Sriram & Svirbely 1997, 2000
data	enter
Are you evaluating a person with a serious illness? (Y or N)		:-):-):-)
Is the person still alive? (Y or N)		:-):-):-)
enter an 'x' in the appropriate column for each question (give only 1 answer per row)
	normal activities with no special care	unable to work normally	unable to care for self
activities and care					Yes	30
	disabled and requires special care	severely disabled, but death not imminent	extremely sick, needs active treatment	moribund, close to death
specific features					Yes	3
calculate	result
data complete?	Yes
evaluation appropriate?	Yes	:-):-):-)
Karnofsky performance score	20