Personalized care management for persons with Parkinson's disease: A telenursing solution.

ABSTRACT: Poor recognition and inadequate treatment of motor and non-motor symptoms negatively impact on the quality of life of persons with Parkinson's Disease (PD). Furthermore, failure to incorporate timely detection and management of symptoms increases the risk of partially avoidable complications. A promising approach to overcome these pitfalls is telenursing, which entails proactive care delivery by a PD Nurse Specialist (PDNS) through telephone contacts. We hypothesized that adding telenursing to usual care could fill a gap in currently available services, including offering patients easy accessibility to a nurse with specific expertise in PD. We explored this hypothesis by prospectively assessing the effects of a telenursing intervention on motor and non-motor symptoms in a patient with PD.

SUBMITTER: Mancini F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7437514 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature