A recent Editorial in The Lancet Neurology¹ highlighted the importance of palliative care for patients with progressive neurological diseases and the requirement for increased funding and research. Because data on prevalence, incidence, and stage of disease in many low-income and middle-income countries is scarce, proxy data is used to estimate palliative care needs. One method of estimation proposed by WHO and the World Palliative Care Alliance relies on mortality data.² The number of patients with a progressive neurological disease who require palliative care is estimated by the number of deaths attributable to a particular cause and multiplied by the prevalence of pain in that patient group.

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神经病学中的姑息治疗

《柳叶刀神经病学》（Lancet Neurology）^1上的最新社论强调了对进行性神经病患者进行姑息治疗的重要性以及增加资金和研究的需求。由于在许多低收入和中等收入国家中，关于疾病的患病率，发病率和疾病阶段的数据很少，因此使用代理数据来估计姑息治疗的需求。世卫组织和世界姑息治疗联盟提出的一种估算方法依赖于死亡率数据。²需要进行姑息治疗的进行性神经系统疾病患者的数量，是由特定原因引起的死亡人数乘以该患者组中的疼痛发生率来估算的。