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Aims
The multipart Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale is the standard instrument in clinical trials. A sum of scores for all items in 1 or more parts of the instrument is usually analysed. Without accounting for relative importance of individual items, this sum of scores conceivably does not optimize the power of the instrument. The aim was to compare the ability to detect drug effect in slowing...