Outcomes in Neurological and Neurosurgical Disorders

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DESCRIZIONE

Weighing restricted budgets against quality of care and treatment success against risks can often prove daunting, particularly when adequate information relating to previous treatment outcomes is hard to find. To facilitate informed decisions, this volume provides both a succinct review and expert advice on the available outcome data relating to most conditions met in neurological practice.Table of Contents ContributorsPrefacePart I. Introduction: 1. The measurement of outcomes of health care Anthony Hopkins2. Definition and measurement of outcome Ann Bowling and Charles Normand3. Cost-benefit analysis Charles Normand and Ann Bowling4. Imaging of the nervous system B. Schuknecht and A. ValavanisPart II. Vascular Disorders: 5. Stroke Julien Bogousslavsky, Marc Hommel and Claudio Bassetti6. Intracranial aneurysms and subarachnoid haemorrhage Akio Morita, Michael R. Puumala and Fredric B. Meyer7. Cerebral arteriovenous malformations Mark G. Hamilton and Robert F. Spetzler8. Spinal vascular malformations Edward H. OldfieldPart III. Trauma to the Central Nervous System: 9. Head injury J. Hsiang and L. F. Marshall10. Outcomes in spinal cord injuries H. L. FrankelPart IV. Tumours: 11. Extrinsic lesions of the CNS H. I. Sabin12. Outcome measurements for intrinsic brain and pituitary tumours Edward R. Laws13. Spinal tumours Jacques BrotchiPart V. Degenerative Disease: 14. Multiple sclerosis Alan J. Thompson15. Mechanical disorders of the spine Howard L. Weiner and Paul R. Cooper16. Degenerative diseases in the CNS Donald B. Calne and W. Koller17. Neuromuscular disease W. J. K. Cumming18. Outcome of polyneuropathies and mononeuropathies L. H. van den Berg, J. H. J. Wokke and F. G. I. JennekensPart VI. Infections of the Central Nervous System: 19. Bacterial meningitis G. Urwin and R. A. Feldman20. Brain abscess R. A. Feldman and G. Urwin21. Viral infections of the nervous system Mohammed K. Sharief and Michael SwashPart VII. Epilepsy, Coma and Other Syndromes: 22. Epilepsy: medical and surgical outcome Teresa A. Tran, Susan S. Spencer and Dennis D. Spencer23. Post-traumatic syndrome, 'myalgic encephalomyelitis' J. M. S. Space24. Outcome in coma N. E. F. Cartlidge25. Syringomyelia Bernard WilliamsPart VIII. Surgery for Movement Disorders and Pain: 26. Neurosurgical treatment of pain syndromes R. R. Tasker27. Neurosurgical treatment for pain: trigeminal neuralgia Kim J. Burchiel and Kevin R. Moore28. Neurosurgical treatment for pain: spinal cord stimulation Andrew Parrent29. Stereotactic surgery for movement disorder R. R. TaskerPart IX. Rehabilitation: 30. Neuropsychology: recovery after brain lesions Ian H. Robertson31. Rehabilitation outcomes in neurological and neurosurgical disease Derick T. WadeIndex.