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Table 1 Assessment instruments and time points of application

From: Study protocol: Care of Late-Stage Parkinsonism (CLaSP): a longitudinal cohort study

Scales/Domains

Instruments

Reference

Application at

T1

T2

T3

T4

Patient-completed

 Quality of life and health status

EuroQol instrument

[20]

x

x

(x)

(x)

PDQ-8a

[21]

x

x

x

x

 Meaning in Life

SMiLE

[22]

x

x

(x)

(x)

 Satisfaction with Care

Likert scale

 

x

x

(x)

(x)

Carer-completed

 Quality of life and health status

EuroQol instrument

[20]

x

x

(x)

(x)

 Patient Quality of Life

DEMQOL-Proxyb

[23]

x

x

x

x

 Satisfaction with Support

Likert Scale

 

x

x

(x)

(x)

 Caregiver burden

Zarit burden scale

[24]

x

x

(x)

(x)

Clinician-completed

Activities of daily living

UPDRS (pt. II)

[25]

x

x

x

x

Schwab&England

[16]

x

x

x

x

Demographic/social data

 

x

   

Checklist of symptoms, treatments, tests

Comorbidities

Charlson-Index

[34]

x

x

(x)

(x)

Resource Utilisation questionnaire

[19]

x

x

x

 

Clinical rating/judgement

CGI

[26]

x

x

x

x

Hoehn and Yahr

[8]

x

x

(x)

(x)

UPDRS (pts. I, III, IV)

[25]

x

x

(x)

(x)

Cognitive assessment

MMSE+clock drawing+fluency

[27,28,29]

x

x

(x)

(x)

Pill questionnaire

[18]

x

x

(x)

(x)

Neuropsychiatric and other non-motor symptoms

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI-12)

[30]

x

x

(x)

(x)

Non-motor symptom scale

[31]

x

x

x

x

Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS)

[32]

x

x

(x)

(x)

Basic palliative assessment

ESAS-(PD)

[33]

x

x

(x)

(x)

Supine and standing blood pressure

  

x

   

Evaluation of Implementation

   

x

  
  1. ain patients with a diagnosis Parkinson’s disease only; bin patients with dementia instead of PDQ8 and EQ-5D; (×) optional; T1 = Baseline with randomisation, T2: 6 months after baseline (in-person for intervention participants only), T3: 12 months after baseline (telephone with patient and/or carer or optional in-person assessment), and T4: 18 months after baseline (telephone with patient and/or carer or optional in-person assessment). Abbreviations used: PDQ-8 The Parkinson’s Disease Questionnaire, short form, SMiLE Schedule for Meaning in Life Evaluation. Euroqol-Instrument (EQ-5D Index and visual analogue scale), DEMQOL-Proxy health-related quality of life for people with dementia - proxy version. CGI Clinical Global Impression, UPDRS Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale, UPDRS Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale, MMSE Mini Mental State Examination, ESAS-PD Edmonton Symptom Assessment System – Parkinson’s Disease