Edss esclerosis multiple pdf

Escalas clinicas en pacientes con esclerosis multiple en atencion. An expert system for the evaluation of edss in multiple. Guidebook kurtzke expanded disability status scale edss. It ranges from 0 to 10, with half points for greater specificity.

Edss scores are used to decide which people can take part in clinical trials of many ms drugs. The expanded disability status scale edss is a way of measuring how much someone is affected by their ms. The expanded disability status scale edss and the functional systems score fss together describe severity of disability in patients with ms. Diseasemodifying medications for ms have been evaluated historically using rating scales of physical disability, such as. This article has been cited by other articles in pmc. Esclerosis multiple, escalas, discapacidad, valoracion funcional, valoracion motora.

Diseasemodifying medications for ms have been evaluated historically using rating scales of physical disability, such as the expanded disability status scale edss 1, or. The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the multiple sclerosis impact scale msis 29 for patients in the community and in a hospital setting. It is primarily used in clinical trials to determine who should participate in a given study and to assess the. You might hear your neurologist talk about it or see it mentioned in reports on trials of ms drugs. Expanded disability status scale multiple sclerosis. An expert system for the evaluation of edss in multiple sclerosis article in artificial intelligence in medicine 252. Esclerosis multiple, trabajo, discapacidad, evaluacion. The mean of patients age was 43,7 years and 73% of those were women.

During an epidemiological study, 172 people with multiple sclerosis ms were examined and completed the msis29, the london handicap scale, and becks depression inventory. There is no consensus method for determining progression of disability in patients with multiple sclerosis ms when each patient has had only a single assessment in the course of the disease. Edss calculator online is the first public online calculator for estimation edss score in patients with multiple sclerosis edss. Using data from two large longitudinal databases, the authors tested whether crosssectional disability assessments are representative of disease severity as a whole. The kurtzke expanded disability status scale edss is a method of quantifying disability in multiple sclerosis. The expanded disability status scale edss is a standardized system used to classify the severity and progression of multiple sclerosis msin other words, to provide a measure of how much disability the disease has caused. Multiple sclerosis ms is a chronic autoimmune, inflammatory neurological disease of the central nervous system cns. The edss replaced the previous disability status scales which used to bunch people with ms in the lower brackets. Estudio descriptivo, transversal, mediante entrevista y exploracion fisica. Expanded disability status scale edss is a method of quantifying disability in multiple sclerosis and monitoring changes in the level of. Rating neurological impairment in multiple sclerosis. With the help of the fss, the examiner rates your disability on the edss scale. Download as ppt, pdf, txt or read online from scribd.