What's in the Sauce? The Specific Benefits of Palliative Care for Parkinson's Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Increasing evidence demonstrates the benefits of palliative care among individuals with Parkinson's disease and related disorders (PDRD), but the critical components that contribute to therapeutic effects are not well understood.

Objectives

To determine the specific items most responsive to a palliative care intervention in PDRD and identify key correlates of improvement in patient and care partner outcomes.

Methods

The main trial was a pragmatic comparative effectiveness trial of outpatient integrated palliative care compared to standard care among participants with PDRD (NCT02533921), showing significantly higher patient QOL at six months and lower care partner burden at 12 months. We used longitudinal regression models to analyze changes in subdomains of pa

SUBMITTER: Bock M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9395211 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature