Caregivers' and Physicians' Treatment Preference in Parkinson Patients Treated With Neupro® Requiring Caregiver Support

A Multi-site, Non-interventional, Cross-sectional Evaluation of the Caregivers' and the Physicians' Preferred Route of Administration and the Physicians' Rationale for the Choice of Neupro® in Patients With Parkinson Requiring Caregiver Support

The study objective is to evaluate advantages and disadvantages of Neupro® versus oral anti-Parkinson medication by caregivers and physicians in idiopathic Parkinson's Disease patients requiring caregiver support in nursing home or outpatient care settings.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Only patients having signed the consent form regarding study information, data transfer and data use
• The patients suffer from idiopathic Parkinson's Disease (iPD) treated with a combination of L-dopa or another oral iPD drug and Neupro® for at least one month
• The patients require caregiver support documented as per medical records (e.g. based on German level of care intensity 1 or greater)
• The decision to prescribe Neupro® must have been made by the physician independent of his/her decision to include the patient in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients not fulfilling the inclusion criteria
• And according to Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC): Hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of the excipients, magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) or cardioversion