Publications by authors named "Megan Alcock"
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- Medication adjustments for Parkinson's disease are based on patient feedback and clinicians' assessments of motor symptoms like bradykinesia and tremor.
- This study evaluates how consistently different clinicians assess upper limb motor function in Parkinson's patients during video recordings of standardized hand movements.
- Results show that initial agreement among clinicians was poor, especially for certain movements, but training improved their consistency in ratings significantly.
Prompt recognition of frailty in the emergency department (ED) is important to identify patients at higher risk of adverse outcomes. Despite this, few studies examine the diagnostic accuracy of screening instruments for frailty, instead focusing on predictive validity. We compared three commonly used, short frailty screens to an independent comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) in an urban University Hospital ED.
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