Abstract
The authors analyzed patient and prescribing provider characteristics for 530 veterans identified from VA pharmacy records with Parkinson disease (PD) and initial pharmacotherapy. Neurologists prescribed 29% of initial therapy. While a patient being younger and seeing a movement disorder specialist predicted receiving dopamine agonists, only 20% of patients younger than age 65 years received dopamine agonists. Initial pharmacotherapy is strongly influenced by the provider's specialty but mostly initiated by providers without PD expertise.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1425-1426 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Neurology |
Volume | 66 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2006 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Neurology