OBJECTIVES To assess cognitive outcome and quality of life in patients with moderate disability after bacterial meningitis as compared to patients with good recovery. METHODS Neuropsychological evaluation was performed in 40 adults after pneumococcal meningitis; 20 patients with moderate disability at discharge on the glasgow outcome scale (GOS score 4) and 20 with good recovery (GOS score 5)...

AIM This study evaluates the final outcome of the treatment of the distal radius fractures with external fixation in patients older than 65 years. PATIENTS AND METHODS Thirteen patients over the age of 65 years with a distal radius fracture were treated with external fixation. The fracture type was determined according the Frykman classification. For evaluation of the outcome six months after...

OBJECTIVE This study tested the hypothesis that patients without placement of new do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders during the first 5 days after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) have lower 30-day mortality than predicted by the ICH Score without an increase in severe disability at 90 days. METHODS This was a prospective, multicenter, observational cohort study at 4 academic medical centers and o...

BACKGROUND The Multiple Sclerosis Severity Score (MSSS) is obtained by normalising the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) score for disease duration and has been a valuable tool in cross-sectional studies. OBJECTIVE To assess whether use of age rather than the inherently ambiguous disease duration was a feasible approach. METHOD We pooled disability data from three population-based coh...

AIM Migraine headache is a common disorder, several drugs have been tried as a prophylaxis to reduce the attacks of headache. AIM of this study is to see the impact of amitriptyline on quality of life in migraneurs using Migraine Disability Assessment Score. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study 300 patients of either gender who required prophylaxis for migraine without aura were selected. The ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate accidental falls and near fall incidents in people with multiple sclerosis with respect to clinical variables and the predictive values of four tests. DESIGN A longitudinal, multi-centred cohort study with prospectively collected falls. PROCEDURES Self-reported incidents during the three months following a standardized test procedure. SUBJECTS Seventy-six people w...

BACKGROUND Mental depression is an important health problem in many countries. It reduces productivity at work and is the fastest increasing reason for early retirement. METHODS This study followed up a Finnish cohort of 1726 men from 1984 to 2000. Depression was assessed at baseline by HPL depression score. Pension records were obtained from the national pension registers. Cox's regression a...

Previously, we published a video-based objective rating scale of tics that met reliability and validity criteria for measurement of five domains of tic disability. In the original form, the scale's metric properties did not permit internal comparison of each of the five domains of impairment and did not provide a total score for use as a primary outcome measure. In this study, we retained the o...

objective: the present study aimed to evaluate the effect of parenting education on improvement of reading and writing disabilities in children. methods: a randomized controlled trial was done on primary school students with reading and writing disabilities and their mothers. the subjects were divided into three groups with 26 members in each group. the first group (mothers’ education group) re...