PURPOSE: To define the interrelationship between cost-of-illness, quality of life (QoL) and Parkinson's disease (PD) severity in a common patient management setting in Finland.Scope. Two hundred and sixty consecutive outpatients with idiopathic PD participated. UPDRS, motor fluctuations, QoL, and the use of health care resources were measured. Direct and indirect costs were calculated. CONCLUSIONS: There is a strong relationship between QoL or cost-of-illness on the one hand, and severity of PD on the other. Treatment policies capable of reducing or delaying motor fluctuations would be expected to increase QoL and reduce some of the economic burden of PD.
PURPOSE: To define the interrelationship between cost-of-illness, quality of life (QoL) and Parkinson's disease (PD) severity in a common patient management setting in Finland.Scope. Two hundred and sixty consecutive outpatients with idiopathic PD participated. UPDRS, motor fluctuations, QoL, and the use of health care resources were measured. Direct and indirect costs were calculated. CONCLUSIONS: There is a strong relationship between QoL or cost-of-illness on the one hand, and severity of PD on the other. Treatment policies capable of reducing or delaying motor fluctuations would be expected to increase QoL and reduce some of the economic burden of PD.
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Authors: Annika E Spottke; Martin Reuter; Olaf Machat; Bernhard Bornschein; Sonja von Campenhausen; Karin Berger; Rudolf Koehne-Volland; Jürgen Rieke; Alexander Simonow; Dirk Brandstaedter; Uwe Siebert; Wolfgang H Oertel; Gudrun Ulm; Richard Dodel Journal: Pharmacoeconomics Date: 2005 Impact factor: 4.981