PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - F O'Malley
AU  - G Dean
AU  - M Elian
TI  - Multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease: survival and how certified after death.
AID  - 10.1136/jech.41.1.14
DP  - 1987 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
PG  - 14--17
VI  - 41
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jech.bmj.com/content/41/1/14.short
4100  - http://jech.bmj.com/content/41/1/14.full
SO  - J Epidemiol Community Health1987 Mar 01; 41
AB  - This study assesses the outcome of a random sample of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and motor neurone disease (MND) selected from a previous study carried out between the years 1960 and 1972. Of the MND patients who are now dead, 20% of the women and 27% of the men lived longer than five years after hospitalised diagnosis, and two of these patients lived up to 19 years after diagnosis in hospital. Also, 10.7% of the random sample of MND patients were still alive in June 1985. Of the MS deaths 26.4% and of the MND deaths 20.4% did not have these respective conditions recorded on the death certificates.