| PROGNOSTIC SCORE | GOALS |
| Karnofsky Performance Score [25] Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status (ECOG) [26] | Prognosis: based on basic functional status assessment Useful for: advanced cancer, HIV/AIDS Not useful: chronic degenerative diseases (>75% U.S. deaths) |
| Palliative Performance Score [27] | Helps determine: if days or weeks vs. weeks to months to live |
| Mitchell Mortality Index for dementia [28] | Disease-specific prognostic tools Used in collaboration with disease-specific subspecialist |
| Seattle Heart Failure Score for heart failure [29] | Disease-specific prognostic tools Used in collaboration with disease-specific subspecialist |
| Physical Performance Test [30] | Geriatric Performance assessment |
| Frankel spinal cord injury functional classification scale Spinal instability neoplastic score (SINS) [31] | Highly predictive of death after bone metastases and spinal cord metastases |