Edss esclerosis multiple pdf

Expanded disability status scale multiple sclerosis. The expanded disability status scale edss is a way of measuring how much someone is affected by their ms. An expert system for the evaluation of edss in multiple sclerosis article in artificial intelligence in medicine 252. There is no consensus method for determining progression of disability in patients with multiple sclerosis ms when each patient has had only a single assessment in the course of the disease. An expert system for the evaluation of edss in multiple.

It is the leading cause of disability in this group. The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the multiple sclerosis impact scale msis 29 for patients in the community and in a hospital setting. It ranges from 0 to 10, with half points for greater specificity. Guidebook kurtzke expanded disability status scale edss. Esclerosis multiple, escalas, discapacidad, valoracion funcional, valoracion motora. Edss calculator online is the first public online calculator for estimation edss score in patients with multiple sclerosis edss. The clinical course is usually characterized by severe. Estudio descriptivo, transversal, mediante entrevista y exploracion fisica.

With the help of the fss, the examiner rates your disability on the edss scale. The expanded disability status scale edss and the functional systems score fss together describe severity of disability in patients with ms. Edss scores are used to decide which people can take part in clinical trials of many ms drugs. Esclerosis multiple, trabajo, discapacidad, evaluacion. It is primarily used in clinical trials to determine who should participate in a given study and to assess the. During an epidemiological study, 172 people with multiple sclerosis ms were examined and completed the msis29, the london handicap scale, and becks depression inventory. Download as ppt, pdf, txt or read online from scribd. Escalas clinicas en pacientes con esclerosis multiple en atencion.

The kurtzke expanded disability status scale edss is a method of quantifying disability in multiple sclerosis. Diseasemodifying medications for ms have been evaluated historically using rating scales of physical disability, such as. Diseasemodifying medications for ms have been evaluated historically using rating scales of physical disability, such as the expanded disability status scale edss 1, or. The expanded disability status scale edss is a standardized system used to classify the severity and progression of multiple sclerosis msin other words, to provide a measure of how much disability the disease has caused. You might hear your neurologist talk about it or see it mentioned in reports on trials of ms drugs. The mean of patients age was 43,7 years and 73% of those were women. Rating neurologic impairment in multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis ms is a chronic autoimmune, inflammatory neurological disease of the central nervous system cns. This article has been cited by other articles in pmc.