PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article reviews the evidence on integrating palliative care into
the care of patients with various types of serious neurologic illness, emphasizes the …

Guidance and protocols of end-of-life care have been directed towards the care of patients
with cancer. It is possible to extrapolate some of these to people with long-term neurological …

Background: Failure to demonstrate the effect of integration on service users using
conventional outcome measures suggests that research to date has failed to measure the …

Palliative care aims to reduce distress, enhance functioning, and improve the quality of life of
people and their families facing life-threatening diseases, rather than directly aiming at cure …

Objectives: To define and examine the models of single discipline care, multi-disciplinary
teams, inter-disciplinary teams, and trans-disciplinary teams and to review in depth trans …

Purpose: This article reviews the physiological basis of stroke rehabilitation and describes
the theories and interventions involved in the rehabilitation of the stroke survivor. Issues …

Collaboration between the neurologist and palliative care team in the care of patients with
severe demyelinating disease can result in improved patient care, and discussion of the …

The purpose of this article is to stress the importance of working with interdisciplinary teams
in neurorehabilitation and describe requirements of team effectiveness. It is not sufficient to …

The European Handbook of Neurological Management, published in collaboration with the
European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS), is a unique book that brings …

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a complex neurological disease that requires comprehensive
multidiscipli-nary care to maximize patient outcomes. A multidisciplinary health care team …