Critical appraisal of guidelines for evaluation and certification of specified neurological disabilities
| Autor: | Govind Singh, Divya Goswami, Rajendra Kumar Acharya, Inder Puri |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Movement disorders disability law Disease Certification lcsh:RC346-429 Convention 03 medical and health sciences Epilepsy 0302 clinical medicine Modified Rankin Scale View Point medicine guidelines 030212 general & internal medicine Psychiatry lcsh:Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system Disability business.industry Unconsciousness medicine.disease Critical appraisal Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, Vol 22, Iss 4, Pp 373-376 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 0972-2327 |
| DOI: | 10.4103/aian.aian_165_19 |
| Popis: | New disability law called “Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016” has been acted in 2016. The United Nations' Convention for Rights of Persons with Disabilities is the sole of this new act. Of the total 21 categories, three new neurological legal disability categories such as chronic neurological conditions, Parkinson disease (PD), and multiple sclerosis have been notified first time in the new act. The new guidelines have been notified in the year 2018 for evaluation and certification of specified disabilities. As a new addition in these guidelines, modified Rankin scale score has been added to measure locomotor disability of stroke. Certainly, newer guidelines have many lacunae also. There are no recommendations of any method of disability measurement associated with movement disorders such as PD, chronic neurological conditions such as migraine, epilepsy, and ataxia. The tables of older guidelines for disability calculation in conditions such as unconsciousness and epileptic fits have been removed in newer guidelines. Professional bodies should come into action immediately and do effort for rectifying these shortcomings and/or fallacies in new guidelines. |
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