How cautious should we be when assessing apathy with the unified Parkinson's disease scale?

Movement Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 684-688

  Kirsch Darrow, Lindsey ^a   Zahodne, Laura B ^a   Hass, Chris ^a   Mikos, Ania ^a   Okun, Michael S ^a   Fernandez, Hubert H ^a   Bowers, Dawn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apathy; Assessment; Mood disorders; Parkinson's disease; PDRS

Indexed keywords

AGED; APATHY; APATHY SCALE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNIFIED PARKINSON DISEASE RATING SCALE; VALIDITY; ADULT; EVALUATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; ROC CURVE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67651174512     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.22437     Document Type: Article

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