Open AccessAgreement analysis between three different short geriatric screening scales in patients undergoing chemotherapy for solid tumors
Author(s) -
Amit Joshi,
Nidhi Tandon,
Vijay Patil,
Vanita Noronha,
Sudeep Gupta,
Atanu Bhattacharjee,
Kumar Prabhash
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.179062
Subject(s) - medicine , kappa , flemish , malignancy , cohen's kappa , statistics , mathematics , geometry , archaeology , history
Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) in routine practice is not logistically feasible. Short geriatric screening tools are available for selecting patients for CGA. However none of them is validated in India. In this analysis we aim to compare the level of agreement between three commonly used short screening tools (Flemish version of TRST (fTRST), G8 and VES-13.