Carl Counsell

TL;DR: Aspirinallocated patients had significantly fewer recurrent ischaemic strokes within 14 days with no significant excess of haemorrhagic strokes, so the reduction in death or non-fatal recurrent stroke with aspirin was significant.

TL;DR: The Movement Disorder Society Task Force for Rating Scales for Parkinson's disease (PD) prepared a critique of the Hoehn and Yahr scale, which recommends that it be used in its original form for demographic presentation of patient groups and in research settings, the HY scale is useful primarily for defining inclusion/exclusion criteria.

TL;DR: The difficulties in performing good quality incidence studies of Parkinson's disease are highlighted, and a set of minimal scientific criteria has been devised to improve the quality and consistency of future studies.

TL;DR: In this article, a prospectively planned meta-analysis is presented of the data from 40 000 individual patients from both trials on events that occurred in the hospital during the scheduled treatment period (4 weeks in CAST, 2 weeks in IST).

TL;DR: A good systematic review is based on a well-formulated, answerable question, which guides the review by defining which studies will be included, what the search strategy to identify the relevant primary studies should be, and which data need to be extracted from each study.