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NeuroRehabilitation - Volume 18, issue 3

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Price: EUR 210.00
ISSN 1053-8135 (P)
ISSN 1878-6448 (E)

Impact Factor 2024: 1.7

NeuroRehabilitation, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, publishes manuscripts focused on scientifically based, practical information relevant to all aspects of neurologic rehabilitation. We publish unsolicited papers detailing original work/research that covers the full life span and range of neurological disabilities including stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, neuromuscular disease and other neurological disorders.

We also publish thematically organized issues that focus on specific clinical disorders, types of therapy and age groups. Proposals for thematic issues and suggestions for issue editors are welcomed.

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Treatment benefit correlates with increase of daily drug costs in Parkinson's disease clinics

Authors: Müller, Thomas | Voß, Birgit | Hellwig, Kerstin | Przuntek, Horst

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Background: There is a move towards treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients in specialized units, however, data on the outcome and on daily antiparkinsonian drug costs are rare. Objective: The objective of this study was to elucidate relationships between costs of drug treatment and efficacy of drug titration in a PD clinic. Subjects and methods: We calculated costs of drug therapy and scored severity of PD of 63 consecutively referred in-patients initially and at the end of their hospital stay under standardized conditions. Results: Titration of antiparkinsonian drugs significantly induced a decrease of PD … Show more

Keywords: Parkinson's disease, pharmacoeconomics, tapping, peg insertion

DOI: 10.3233/NRE-2003-18311

Citation: NeuroRehabilitation, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 271-275, 2003

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Listening in the Silence, Seeing in the Dark: Reconstructing Life after Brain Injury, by Ruthann Knechel Johansen

Authors: LaRuffa, Gia M.

Article Type: Book Review

DOI: 10.3233/NRE-2003-18312

Citation: NeuroRehabilitation, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 277-277, 2003

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