Practice Parameters for Parkinson disease Signposts for clinical research

摘要

Physicians strive to practice medicine in a manner that optimizes outcomes for patients. This demands both thoughtful individualization of care and application of the best knowledge relevant to the clinical problem at hand. In recent years, the evidence-based medicine movement has attempted to raise the standards of clinical practice by bringing the methods of clinical epidemiology and clinical research into day to day practice. In an effort to present scientifically sound guidelines to aid the practice of neurology, the Quality Standards Subcommittee (QSS) of the American Academy of Neurology sponsors a series of Practice Parameters relevant to different neurology subspecialties. The recent development of a series of Practice Parameters regarding the treatment of Parkinson disease (PD) demonstrates the strengths and limitations of this approach.