hi all i have sent the e-mail request below asking for information about the SPES to the institution which conducted the study i will keep you posted on any further information janet >Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:41:37 -0500 >To: "Dr. Itzhak Shapira" <e-mail address removed> >From: janet paterson <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Short Parkinson's Evaluation Scale > >Dear Dr. Shapira; > >I have come across the following reference >to the SPES in the PubMed abstracts on line >at the U.S. National Institutes of Health website: > >Clin Neuropharmacol 1997 Aug;20(4):322-37 >Evaluation of the Short Parkinson's Evaluation Scale: a new friendly scale >for the evaluation of Parkinson's disease in clinical drug trials. >Rabey JM, Bass H, Bonuccelli U, Brooks D, Klotz P, Korczyn AD, Kraus P, >Martinez-Martin P, Morrish P, Van Sauten W, Van Hilten B >Department of Neurology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel. >PMID: 9260730, UI: 97405686 ><http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/> > >I am contacting you to ask whether the SPES is available on line? > >The UPDRS and other Parkinson staging scales are available >but I have been unable to find any other references to the SPES. > >This would be of great interest to myself as well as to the other >1600 members of an on-line e-mailing list devoted to exchanging >information about Parkinson's Disease. > >Best regards > >Janet Paterson > > >janet paterson - 51 now /41 dx /37 onset - almonte/ontario/canada >http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/janet/index.htm >[log in to unmask]