Do neurologists in Germany adhere to the national Parkinson's disease guideline?

Do neurologists in Germany adhere to the national Parkinson’s disease guideline?

Implementation of guidelines can improve clinical practice. The aim in this study was to investigate whether neurologists in Germany adhered to the national Parkinson's disease guideline. Data were obtained from a cross-sectional survey of 60 neurologists. Analyses were performed on 320 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease with either low grades of functional impairment (Hoehn and Yahr ...

Do general practitioners adhere to the guideline on infectious conjunctivitis? Results of the Second Dutch National Survey of General Practice

BACKGROUND In 1996 the guideline 'The Red Eye' was first published by the Dutch College of General Practitioners. The extent to which general practitioners adhere to this guideline is unclear. Recently, data on the management of infectious conjunctivitis by general practitioners became available from the Second Dutch National Survey of General Practice. We measured the age-specific incidence of...

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Do neurologists make a difference in Parkinson disease care?

James F. Burke, MD Roger L. Albin, MD HOW WAS THE STUDY PERFORMED? Willis et al.1 reviewed Medicare data to explore 2 questions. First, what characteristics determine whether a patient with Parkinson disease (PD) sees a neurologist? Second, are patients who see a neurologist likely to live longer than patients who do not see a neurologist? The Medicare data for this study data came from insuran...

Phototherapy use in jaundiced newborns in a large managed care organization: do clinicians adhere to the guideline?

OBJECTIVE In 1994, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published a practice guideline with age-specific thresholds for phototherapy for healthy term newborns with hyperbilirubinemia. The purpose of this study was to examine adherence to the guideline in a large managed care organization. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of linked computerized databases from 1...