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Table 5 Reasons patients with APD were not using DAT

From: Characterizing advanced Parkinson’s disease: OBSERVE-PD observational study results of 2615 patients

Reasona

Patients, n (%), n = 332

Patient characteristic reasons

 Cognitive-related issues

27 (8)

 Psychiatric-related issues

23 (7)

 Comorbidities

20 (6)

 Age

12 (4)

 Lack of caregiver/family support

11 (3)

 Motor function–related issues

6 (2)

Reasons related to patient decision

 Patient needs more time to decide

129 (39)

 Patient refusal

82 (25)

Other reasons

 Cost/reimbursement

0

 Other reasons

45 (14)

  1. aMultiple entries for each patient were possible. A total of 23 patients who gave reasons related to patient decisions and had physician-based patient characteristic reasons were excluded
  2. APD advanced Parkinson’s disease, DAT device-aided treatment