Movement Disorder Society Parkinson’s Disease Criteria (MDS-PD Criteria)

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Doctor of Physical Therapy

B.S. in Kinesiology

Doctor of Physical Therapy

B.A. in Neuroscience

Certainty levels

Clinically Established PD

This category was designed to maximize specificity1. Thus, a large majority of those who fall into this category (>90%) will have Parkinson’s disease1. As a result of the high specificty, there are many false negatives and many true PD cases will not meet the inclusion criteria1.

Clinically Probable PD

This category focuses on balancing sensitivity and specificity. As a result, less patients who fall into this category will actually have PD (≥80%), but this category has less false negatives and correctly identifies 80% of true PD cases1.

References

1.
Postuma RB, Berg D, Stern M, et al. MDS clinical diagnostic criteria for Parkinson’s disease: MDS-PD Clinical Diagnostic Criteria. Movement Disorders. 2015;30(12):1591-1601. doi:10.1002/mds.26424

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