Nurse specialists in Parkinson's disease preserve patients' wellbeing

Most patients with Parkinson's disease have no regular contact with a consultant specialist. Contact with specialist nurses has been thought to be valuable as it increases the provision of information. A two year randomised controlled study by Jarman and colleagues (p 1072) looked at effects on patients and found that the provision of community based nurse specialists did not alter the progression of the condition but did improve patients' sense of wellbeing, with no increase to healthcare costs.


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Effects of community based nurses specialising in Parkinson's disease on health outcome and costs: randomised controlled trial
Brian Jarman, Brian Hurwitz, Adrian Cook, Madhavi Bajekal, and Alison Lee
BMJ 2002 324: 1072. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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