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Audio Interchange File Format  |  1996-12-09  |  480.0 KB  |  1 channel  |  11,025 sample rate  |  22 seconds
Transcription: Performance Status. A measurement of how well a cancer patient is functioning. Index numbers from 0 to 100, increasing in steps of 10, are used to document and record functional status as opposed to other measurements that indicate the size of a tumor. A person with a performance status of 80 functions better than one with a score of 50, also called Karnofsky score.