Open AccessDrug safety monitoring in patients of movement disorders of a tertiary care hospital
Author(s) -
Ananya Mandal,
Suparna Chatterjee,
Shyamal Kumar Das,
Amar Kumar Mishra
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
indian journal of pharmacology/the indian journal of pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.286
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1998-3751
pISSN - 0253-7613
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7613.68437
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , movement disorders , observational study , drug , essential tremor , pediatrics , tertiary referral hospital , referral , outpatient clinic , disease , psychiatry , retrospective cohort study , family medicine , physics , optics
Movement disorders (MD) are neurological conditions that affect the speed, fluency, quality, and ease of movement and commonly include Parkinson's disease, tremor and dystonias. Drugs are important causes of MD, and the incidence and prevalence of such disorders are possibly underappreciated because of the lack of recognition.