title: Prescribing medications in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients during acute admissions to a District General Hospital.
abstract: This is a short report illustrating the problems of the prescribing of anti-Parkinson's disease (PD) medication in patients with PD who are admitted acutely to hospital for any reason. There were a large number of complications as a result of inappropriate or lack of anti-PD drug administration and poor understanding amongst junior doctors and nursing staff. We suggest some changes that we have initiated in our hospital to try to improve the situation.
authors.affiliation: Princess Royal University Hospital, Bromley, Kent, UK. nadiamagdalinou@doctors.org.uk
authors.forename: K Nadia
authors.initials: KN
authors.lastname: Magdalinou
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Belinda
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kessel
mesh_terms: D000978:Antiparkinson Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006767:Hospitals, District / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006769:Hospitals, General / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies
chemical_list: D000978:Antiparkinson Agents