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Identification of motor and nonmotor wearing-off in Parkinson's disease: Comparison of a patient questionnaire versus a clinician assessment
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Abstract
- This study compares the sensitivity of a Patient Questionnaire versus information gathered by clinicians at a routine clinic visit in recognizing symptoms of wearing-off in early Parkinson's disease (PD). This Patient Questionnaire, containing 32 items representing a wide spectrum of motor and nonmotor wearing-off symptoms, was administered to subjects attending two PD clinics. The Patient Questionnaire results were compared to the information gathered by the clinician from the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) Part IV, Question 36 and from a specific Clinical Assessment Question regarding loss of medication efficacy, wearing-off, sleepiness, dyskinesias, psychiatric complications, morning akinesia, other dopaminergic side effects, or none of the above. Examiners were blinded to study hypothesis and survey contents. Three hundred consecutive subjects with PD of
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Activities of daily living
Parkinson's disease
Movement disorders
Motor Activity
Severity of Illness Index
Levodopa
Central nervous system disease
Disability Evaluation
Cognition
Rating scale
Surveys and Questionnaires
Activities of Daily Living
Outcome Assessment, Health Care
Severity of illness
medicine
Humans
Aged
Retrospective Studies
Aged, 80 and over
Movement Disorders
Age Factors
Case-control study
Parkinson Disease
Retrospective cohort study
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Neurology
Case-Control Studies
Physical therapy
Female
Neurology (clinical)
medicine.symptom
Cognition Disorders
Psychology
Subjects
Details
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- BASE-Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
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- edsair.doi.dedup.....e3cd9e3141a63b1434e821eb1d057333