RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease: survival and how certified after death.
JF Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
JO J Epidemiol Community Health
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 14
OP 17
DO 10.1136/jech.41.1.14
VO 41
IS 1
A1 F O'Malley
A1 G Dean
A1 M Elian
YR 1987
UL http://jech.bmj.com/content/41/1/14.abstract
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.