LOINC Code 89247-1: ECOG Performance Status score

What is this code?

LOINC codes identify tests, measurements, observations, survey items, and clinical questions in a standardized way. It is associated with the component Performance status. It is commonly used with the system or sample type ^Patient.

When is it used?

• Used in lab systems, EHRs, and clinical data exchange.
• May identify a test, observation, survey item, or clinical document request rather than a diagnosis.
• Status: ACTIVE
• Order vs observation: Both
• Method: Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group

What it does not mean

• The code identifies the observation or test, not the actual result.

Key facts

• ECOG Performance Status score
• Performance status
• The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status grade or score, which indicates a patient's level of daily functioning and physical ability. The ECOG grade ranges from 0-5 where 0=fully active, able to carry on all pre-disease performance without restriction,1=restricted in physically strenuous activity but ambulatory and able to carry out work of a light or sedentary nature, e.g., light house work, office work, 2=ambulatory and capable of all selfcare but unable to carry out any work activities; up and about more than 50% of waking hours, 3=capable of only limited selfcare; confined to bed or chair more than 50% of waking hours, 4= completely disabled; cannot carry on any selfcare; totally confined to bed or chair, and 5= dead.
• Cancer; CLIN; ECOG; Perform status; Point in time; QNT; Quan; Quant; Quantitative; Random; Scale; Scre

Where you may see this code

You may see this code in lab systems, lab reports, EHR exports, interoperability feeds, or other structured clinical data exchanges.

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