Care of PD patients with dementia in office-based neurologists: a national Survey (GEPAD study)

Background: Data related to drug related costs and non-drug related costs in pa-tients with PD is scarce, mainly due to difficulty in data acquisition and the difficulty to obtain these in experimental designs. Likewise the reported impact of drug costs on the position of total direct costs varies across different studies from 20% in European investigations up to more than two thirds in a Chinese study. We therefore conducted the first study with PD patients with dementia in Germany. Methods: A sample of office-based neurologists in Germany was asked to examine consecutively up to five patients with parkinsonian…