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Discrepancies between genitourinary cancer patients' and clinicians' characterization of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status.

Cristiane Decat BergerotErrol J PhilipPaulo Gustavo BergerotJoAnn HsuNazli DizmanMegan SalgiaNicholas SalgiaUlka N VaishampayanDena BattleMatthew LoscalzoWilliam DaleSumanta Kumar Pal
Published in: Cancer (2020)
Discrepancies were noted between the patient- and provider-reported ECOG PS, with clinicians overestimating the ECOG PS in comparison with the patients themselves. This study's findings suggest that patients incorporate their social and emotional well-being into their PS score in addition to their physical well-being. This information is not immediately accessible to most clinicians from just a standard patient interview and likely accounts for the overestimation of the patients' ECOG PS by the clinicians.
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