ABSTRACT
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with a high impact on individuals who experience it and their families. In 2010, the Chilean Health System included PD in the Health's explicit guarantees, and clinical guidelines were developed for the diagnosis and management of PD. We reviewed the guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of PD published in the literature worldwide, in order to adapt them to our country's reality from the perspective of a national group of experts.
La enfermedad de Parkinson (EP) es una enfermedad neurodegenerativa progresiva de alto impacto para las personas que la sufren y sus familiares. El año 2010 el Ministerio de Salud de Chile la incorporó al sistema de garantías explicitas en Salud, lo que dio origen al desarrollo de las guías clínicas para el manejo de la EP. Un grupo de expertos nacionales realizó una revisión de las guías sobre diagnóstico y tratamiento de la EPpublicadas en la literatura a nivel mundial, con el propósito de evaluarlas y adaptarlas a la realidad chilena.
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Humans , Evidence-Based Medicine , Parkinson Disease/diagnosis , Parkinson Disease/therapy , Chile , ConsensusABSTRACT
Background: In Chile, cerebrovascular diseases are the fifth cause of death among men and the third cause among women. Aim: To assess the clinical features and management of patients with cerebrovascular disease admitted to a public hospital during 1997. Patients and methods: A retrospective analysis of clinical records of patients discharged with a diagnosis of cerebrovascular disease. Those records in which there was discordance between the discharge diagnosis and the clinical picture were not considered in the analysis. Results: Of the 563 discharges from the hospital with the diagnosis of cerebrovascular disease, 487 records were located and 450 were considered in the analysis. Fifty four percent of patients were male and ages ranged from 17 to 96 years old...