Rating Scales in Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Practice and Research

Citation

(2012), "Rating Scales in Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Practice and Research", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 25 No. 8. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2012.06225haa.015

Rating Scales in Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Practice and Research

Rating Scales in Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Practice and Research

Article Type: Recent publications From: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 25, Issue 8

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Edited by Cristina Sampaio, Christopher G. Goetz and Anette Schrag,OUP,ISBN: 978-0-19-978310-6,August 2012,

Keywords: Parkinson’s Disease and diagnosis, Rating scales in Parkinson’s disease, Symptom management and Parkinson’s disease

For many years, the need to develop valid tools to evaluate signs and symptoms of Parkinson Disease (PD) has been present. However, the understanding of all intricacies of rating scales development was not widely available and the first attempts were relatively crude. In 2002, the Movement Disorders Society created a taskforce to systemize the measurement of Parkinson’s Disease. Since then, the taskforce has produced and published several critiques to the available rating scales addressing both motor and non-motor domains of Parkinson’s Disease. Additionally, the taskforce initiated a project to develop a new version of the UPDRS, the MDS-UPDRS. But none of this was made available in one convenient source.

Rating Scales in Parkinson’s Disease is written for researchers from the medical and social sciences, and for health professionals wishing to evaluate the progress of their patients suffering from Parkinson Disease. The book is both exhaustive in the description of the scales and informative on the advantages and limitations of each scale. As such, the text clearly guides readers on how to choose and use the instruments available. Extensive cross-referenced tables and charts closely integrate the parts of the book to facilitate readers in moving from one symptom domain to another.

Contents include:

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   Measurement tools and how to interpret the validation data:

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     development of a rating scale;

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     how to evaluate validation data; and

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     the clinical relevant differences.

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   Evaluation of Parkinson Disease impairments and disabilities: history, methods and scales:

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     a historical perspective of rating scales in PD: the problems of evaluating impairments and disability;

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     The Movement Disorder Society Rating Scales Review Methodology;

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     UPDRS and MDS-UPDRS;

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     evaluation of motor complications: Dyskinesia rating scales;

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     evaluation of motor complications: motor fluctuations;

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     staging in Parkinson Disease – H and Y;

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     quality of life; and

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     medical economics

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   Motor and non-motor domains of Parkinson Disease:

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     anhedonia and apathy;

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     anxiety;

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     cognition impairment and dementia;

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     dysautonomia-orthostatic hypotension;

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     fatigue;

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     psychosis and hallucinations;

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     nocturnal sleep; and

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     depression.