Prescribing medications in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients during acute admissions to a District General Hospital.
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.
Magdalinou
K Nadia
KN
Princess Royal University Hospital, Bromley, Kent, UK. nadiamagdalinou@doctors.org.uk
Martin
Anne
A
Kessel
Belinda
B
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
D000978:Antiparkinson Agents