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GuidelineJournal of neurology2024

Guideline "Parkinson's disease" of the German Society of Neurology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurologie): concepts of care.

Lars Tönges, Carsten Buhmann, Carsten Eggers, Stefan Lorenzl, Tobias Warnecke, German Parkinson Guideline Group

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Guideline in Journal of neurology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. A Systematic Review of Worldwide Guidelines, Protocols, and Health Care Standards for Provision of Palliative Care Services in Progressive Neurological Disorders.Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Lars TöngesDepartment of Neurology, St. Josef-Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum, 44791, Bochum, Germany. lars.toenges@rub.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6621-144X
Carsten BuhmannDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Carsten EggersDepartment of Neurology, Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bottrop, Bottrop, Germany.
Stefan LorenzlDepartment of Palliative Medicine, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany.
Tobias WarneckeDepartment of Neurology and Neurorehabilitation, Klinikum Osnabrück-Academic Teaching Hospital of the University of Münster, 49076, Osnabrück, Germany.
German Parkinson Guideline Group

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionIn 2023, the German Society of Neurology published a new guideline on Parkinson's disease. An important section dealt with PD care concepts, which represent a particularly dynamic field of PD research, including their implementation in clinical practice. Parkinson's disease is the second most common age-associated neurodegenerative disease. Current estimates of the number of cases in the population describe a significant increase in prevalence in Germany by 2030 with higher proportions in rural areas, which also have a lack of sufficient PD care resources. RECOMMENDATIONS: In comparison with other international guidelines, which have so far mentioned palliative care and Parkinson's nurses in particular, the German S2k guideline expands the recommended concepts of PD care to include PD day clinics, inpatient complex treatment, and PD networks.

conclusionConcepts of PD care guidelines are necessary because of the complex and rapidly evolving field of PD care provision. If applied appropriately, the potential for optimized care can be exploited and both the patient burden and the economic burden can be reduced. Given that modern care concepts have so far only been applied in a few regions, it is often impossible to generate broad evidence-based data, so that the evaluation of PD care concepts is partly dependent on expert opinion.

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NeurologyParkinson DiseaseSocieties, MedicalGermanyHumansMultidisciplinary carePalliative careParkinson’s diseasePD day clinicPD networksPD nurse

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PMID38969876
PMCPMC11588773

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