Neurological Disorders

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Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders--Alzheimer's Disease: A Pilot Study of a Practice Redesign Intervention to Improve the Quality of Dementia Care — Jan 31, 2010

This pilot study suggests that a practice-based intervention can increase referral to Alzheimer's Association chapters and improve quality of dementia care.

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Psychosocial Interventions for Non-Professional Careers of People with Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Scoping Review — Dec 31, 2007

Reviews evidence on psychosocial interventions for non-professional careers of people with Parkinson's disease. Most studies were not designed to assess the clinical- or cost-effectiveness of the intervention for the careers.

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Responsiveness of the Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory (QOLIE-89) in an Antiepileptic Drug Trial — Dec 31, 2002

Responsiveness of this HRQOL measure can be reported in terms of previously established benchmarks for ESs, which can be predicted from other indices.

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Seizure Reduction and Quality of Life Improvements in People with Epilepsy — Dec 31, 2001

In this study, HRQOL improvement occurred primarily among patients who achieved complete seizure freedom.

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Statins and Dementia — Dec 31, 2000

Use of statin cholesterol-lowering drugs is observationally associated with lower rates of Alzheimer disease (AD). The authors make an even stronger point: data are consistent with and indeed can be taken to support the contrary conclusion--that high cholesterol protects against dementia. Lipid-lowering drugs are used in the context of--and may serve statistically as a marker for--elevated cholesterol.

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Quality of Life Measures in Epilepsy: How Well Can They Detect Change Over Time? — Dec 31, 1999

Epilepsy-targeted health-related quality of life measures may be preferable to generic ones in longitudinal studies.

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Outcomes in 248 patients who had diagnostic evaluations for epilepsy surgery — Dec 31, 1995

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Agreement between self reports and proxy reports of quality of life in epilepsy patients — Dec 31, 1994

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Development of the Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory — Dec 31, 1994

Describes the development of a 99-item epilepsy HRQOL inventory that includes the SF-36 as its core.

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Quality of life of epilepsy surgery patients compared to outpatients with hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, and — Dec 31, 1992

Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of 166 adults who had previously undergone surgical treatment for intractable epilepsy was compared with that of outpatients having hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, and/or depressive symptoms. Eight self-reported HRQOL domains were evaluated and compared using the RAND 36-Item Health Survey 1.

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Reliability and Validity of the Katz Adjustment Scales in an Epilepsy Sample — Dec 31, 1991

Development of quality of life measures de novo is time-consuming and expensive, and a number of instruments are already available for general use.

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Clinical Epilepsy Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke — Dec 31, 1991

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PEOPLE

Barbara Vickrey

Affiliated Adjunct Staff
M.D., Duke University; M.P.H. in epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles; B.S. in biomedical engineering and molecular biology, Vanderbilt University

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