1 European Cooperative Network for Research, Diagnosis and Therapy of Parkinson´s disease Health Economics WP 5
2 To create a system for review of the health care economics of Parkinsons Disease in Europe Overall Objective
3 Descriptive analysis: how CARE of PD is organized in Europe Burden-of-disease-analysis, Quality of Life and Patient Preferences (utilities) of PD in Europe Work package Health Economics Overview
4 To highlight the different European health system structures it is necessary: to get an overview of the existing decision making processes to understand the consequences of these decision making processes on the care of PD patients as a basis for interpretation of health-economic data from a national and an European perspective Objectives Descriptive analysis how CARE of PD is organized in Europe
5 Instruments: Questionnaire (semi-standardized) Desk-top research Telephone research Interview: telephone or face-to-face Who will be interviewed? Health Authorities Physicians Patients organizations Nursing homes Data collection - Step 1 Descriptive analysis how CARE of PD is organized in Europe
6 Data collection - Step 2 Burden-of-disease-analysis, Quality of Life and Patient Preferences (utilities) of PD in Europe
7 Time Schedule First Step Descriptive analysis: how CARE of PD is organized in Europe March May 2002: Interviews May 2002: Analysis of data and first short report Second Step Burden of disease study June December 2002 January 2003 Analysis of data and second report
8 People involved Marburg MERG Metronomia Medical Economics Research group S. v. Campenhausen A. Smala O. Athen A. Spottke K. Berger D. Meyer H. Peter R. Köhne-Volland R. Dodel W.H. Oertel