The multidisciplinary team: Research papers
- Effectiveness of an Inpatient Movement Disorders Program for Patients with Atypical Parkinsonism
Clinically significant improvements in total FIM score were evident in 74% of the patients. Results were similar for ten patients whose medications were not adjusted. Patients with atypical parkinsonism benefit from an inpatient interdisciplinary movement disorders program to improve functional status.
01 December 2011
- Innovation and Education to Improve the Management of Parkinson's Disease
While management has advanced since the 1960s with the use of alternative symptomatic treatments, adjunctive agents, electric brain stimulation approaches and new methods of drug delivery, no treatment is currently known that is capable of arresting the progressive nature of the disease.
01 July 2011
- Parkinson's Disease and Quality of Life A Patient's Perspective
Quality of life (QoL) for the person with Parkinson's disease (PD) relies heavily on the effectiveness of communication between patient and healthcare providers. It is only through a successful interaction between clinical expertise and patient experience together with lifestyle choice that the most appropriate management strategies for a person with PD can be devised and implemented.
01 July 2011
- Multidisciplinary Team Work Can Improve the Care of Families With Parkinson's Disease
There are several approaches or models that can be used simple parallel, consultative or collaborative approaches are usually based on informal sharing of information, whereas coordinated, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches involve more formalised teams usually having regular meetings and making group decisions.
01 July 2011
- Multidisciplinary care for Parkinson's disease: not if, but how!
Against this background, any neurologist who still feels that a single discipline suffices to combat this debilitating disease must seem almost heartless, or at least a bit naive. And any potential critics should be consoled by the fact that multidisciplinary care has already won its spurs in other areas of neurology for example, stroke units
01 April 2011
- A US survey of patients with Parkinson's disease: Satisfaction with medical care and support groups
We surveyed members of the Muhammad Ali Parkinson's Disease Registry to assess satisfaction with medical care and to evaluate support group use. Satisfaction was measured on a 5-point Likert scale, with high satisfaction defined as a four or five.
15 October 2010
