Movement Disorder Society Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale Questionnaire

Definition 1

A standardized rating scale developed and copyrighted by the Movement Disorders Society in 2008 and published in the journal Movement Disorders (C.G. Goetz et al. Movement Disorder Society-Sponsored Revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS): Scale Presentation and Clinimetric Testing Results. Movement Disorders, 23(15):2129-2170.) which is used to evaluate the severity of an individual's Parkinson's disease symptoms. This instrument contains four parts consisting of non-motor and motor experiences in daily living, a motor examination and an assessment of motor complications which is completed during an interview and physical examination. Each symptom is rated on a scale of 0-4 with 0 being normal and 4 being severe. (NCI Thesaurus)

Definition 2

The Movement Disorder Society version of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) (copyright 2008 Movement Disorder Society. All Rights Reserved). (NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

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