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“The guidelines of the German Neurological Society dealing with therapy and treatment of Parkinson syndromes have been more and more accepted as a diagnostic and therapeutic standard by German neurologists. While attending the 12th Parkinson expert meeting in Frankfurt in November 2011 a group of 6 neurologists working either in a hospital setting or in private practice took on the task to check the feasibility of the guidelines for diagnosis of Parkinson syndromes within the everyday neurological context. The group concluded that the guidelines in general are helpful for the installation of a diagnostic setting for Parkinson syndromes although the use of some tools like the levodopa test as well as SPECT or PET examinations remain controversial. These diagnostic tools will often not be used in clinical practice in the sense of the guidelines, this can lead to either legal issues or conflicts with the patients

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version of the guidelines including a graded diagnostic scheme as well as a weighted assessment www.selleckchem.com/p38-MAPK.html of the diagnostic tools regarding their usefulness for the diagnosis of Parkinson syndromes would be helpful in the opinion of the expert group.”
“Objective\n\nTo quantify the variation in emergency department (ED) wait times by patient race/ethnicity and payment source, and to divide the overall association into between- and within-hospital components.\n\nData Source\n\n2005 and 2006 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys.\n\nStudy Design\n\nLinear regression was used to analyze the independent associations between race/ethnicity, payment source, and ED wait times in a pooled cross-sectional design. A hybrid fixed effects specification was used to measure the between- and within-hospital components.\n\nData Extraction Methods\n\nData were limited to children under 16 years presenting at EDs.\n\nPrincipal Results\n\nUnadjusted and adjusted ED wait times were significantly longer for non-Hispanic black and Hispanic children than for non-Hispanic white children. Children in EDs with higher shares of non-Hispanic black and Hispanic children waited longer. Moreover, Hispanic children waited 10.4 percent longer than non-Hispanic white children when treated at the same hospital.