Taking specialist clinics into community nursing homes
Objective: Evaluate the effectiveness of delivering specialist Parkinson's care in community care home settings. Background: Our drive to improve older people's care has led to…Medication use patterns vary across expert Parkinson’s disease clinics
Objective: This analysis aims to describe and quantify the medication patterns for patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) managed in expert clinics. Background: Antiparkinson medication use…Safety and tolerability of inhaled levodopa (CVT-301) administered to Parkinson’s disease patients with motor fluctuations
Objective: Two Phase 2 studies were conducted to evaluate the safety profile of inhaled CVT-301 administered to Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with motor fluctuations. Background:…Status of NPF-QII after six years: Updates to the dataset
Objective: To describe the status and recent findings from the National Parkinson Foundation's Quality Improvement Initiative (NPF-QII), an 8,179 subject observational clinical study conducted at…Clinical effect and dose conversion of rytary (numient) in 50 consecutive patients with PD motor fluctuations
Objective: To review the clinical use of a newer extended-release levodopa preparation in 50 consecutive patients with PD experiencing motor fluctuations on immediate-release levodopa. Background:…Evaluation of droxidopa dosing and clinical response in 50 consecutive patients with Parkinson’s disease and symptomatic neurogenic orthostatic hypotension
Objective: To determine the effect of droxidopa on clinical symptoms and standing systolic blood pressure in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and neurogenic orthostatic hypotention…Efficacy of apomorphine subcutaneous injections in patients with levodopa dose failures and morning akinesia
Objective: To assess the effect of subcutaneous injection of apomorphine (APO) in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD)and morning akinesia who experience dose failures after their…Improvement in posture, pain, and cardiac autonomic function in a prospective study of osteopathic manipulative medicine and physical therapy for camptocormia in Parkinson’s disease
Objective: A prospective cohort study of the effectiveness of osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) and physical therapy in improving postural control and dysautonomia in Parkinson's disease…When is the worst period of nocturnal hypokinesia in Parkinson’s disease? A sensor-based analysis
Objective: To quantify the number of turning in bed throughout the night as a determinant of the severity of nocturnal hypokinesia. Background: Nocturnal hypokinesia or…The Parkinson progression marker initiative (PPMI) – Developing a comprehensive longitudinal biomarker dataset
Objective: The goal of the Parkinson Progression Marker Initiative (PPMI) is to identify clinical, imaging and biospecimen biomarkers of PD progression to provide tools for…
Abstracts from the International Congress of Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders.