Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title page and verso
- Letter to the Minister
- Contents
- List of tables, figures and boxes
- Acknowledgments
- Executive summary (99KB PDF)
- Sections
- Purpose, organisation and management
- 1.1 Introduction and background
- Objectives of the MS and MND study
- 1.2 Study organisation and administration
- Study Advisory Committee
- Ethics Committee
- Expert Neurologist Panel
- Structure of the report
- Multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease
- 2.1 Multiple sclerosis
- Epidemiology
- Signs and symptoms
- Diagnosis
- 2.2 Motor neurone disease
- Epidemiology
- Signs and symptoms
- Diagnosis
- Study design
- 3.1 Study population
- 'New veterans' and 'new conditions'
- 3.2 Survey methods
- Survey of veterans
- Survey of general practitioners and hospitals
- Survey of neurologists
- Classification of clinical notes
- Deaths of veterans
- 3.3 Validation methodology
- Recalculation of Australian community standards
- Misallocation of conditions
- Allocation of non-respondents and not able to be validated responses
- Results
- 4.1 Survey response
- Veterans
- Doctors
- Neurologists
- 4.2 Validation of conditions
- Panel classification results
- Veterans' deaths since 1997
- Validation of MS and MND in veterans
- Impact of method of allocation of non-respondents and not able to be validated responses
- 'New veterans' and 'new conditions'
- 4.3 Conclusion
- End matter
- Appendixes
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Appendix 4
- Appendix 5
- El Escorial criteria
- Rose criteria
- References