Interdisciplinary Parkinson's Disease Deep Brain Stimulation Screening and the Relationship to Unintended Hospitalizations and Quality of Life.

Interdisciplinary Parkinson's Disease Deep Brain Stimulation Screening and the Relationship to Unintended Hospitalizations and Quality of Life.

OBJECTIVE:To investigate the impact of pre-operative deep brain stimulation (DBS) interdisciplinary assessments on post-operative hospitalizations and quality of life (QoL). BACKGROUND:DBS has been utilized successfully in Parkinson's disease (PD) for the treatment of tremor, rigidity, bradykin...

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Main Authors: Masa-Aki Higuchi, Daniel Martinez-Ramirez, Hokuto Morita, Dan Topiol, Dawn Bowers, Herbert Ward, Lisa Warren, Meredith DeFranco, Julie A Hicks, Karen W Hegland, Michelle S Troche, Shankar Kulkarni, Erin Hastings, Kelly D Foote, Michael S Okun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4861342?pdf=render

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