Clinical rating scales.

Parkinsonism Relat Disord

University of Zagreb, School of Medicine and University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Department of Neurology, Zagreb, Croatia.

Published: January 2012

In Parkinson's disease (PD), rating scales are used to assess the degree of disease-related disability and to titrate long-term treatment to each phase of the disease. Recognition of non-motor symptoms required modification of existing widely used scales to integrate non-motor elements. In addition, new scales have been developed for the assessment of non-motor symptoms. In this article, assessment of PD patients will be discussed, particularly for non-motor symptoms such as pain and fatigue.

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