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Table 2 Outcome measures for patients which will be measured at baseline, 12 and 24 months

From: Proactive and Integrated Management and Empowerment in Parkinson’s Disease protocol for a randomised controlled trial (PRIME-UK) to evaluate a new model of care

Domain

Outcome

Measurement tool/method where one is available

Primary outcome measure

Goal attainment

Bangor Goal-Setting interview [19]

Parkinson’s specific measures

Parkinson’s disease assessment

MDS-Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) [21]

Non-motor symptom burden

MDS Non-Motor Rating Scale (MDS-NMS)* [22]

Parkinson’s-related quality of life

Parkinson’s Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39)* [23]

Health

Fear of falling

Iconographical Fall Efficacy Scale (ICON-FES)-short version [24]

Global impression of change

Patients’ Global Impression of Change (PGIC)

Clinician Global Impression of Change (CGI-I)

Frailty

SHARE-FI 75+ (Phenotypic frailty tool) [25]

Pictorial fit frail scale* [26]

Clinical frailty scale [27]

Sarcopenia

SARC-F* and SARC-CalF* [28]

Malnutrition risk

Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST)

Nutritional risk

Seniors in the community: risk Evaluation for Eating and Nutrition (SCREEN II)-14 item version* [29, 30]

Delirium

4AT tool for delirium assessment [31]

Physical performance

Physical performance

Short physical performance battery (SPPB)

Time up and go test (TUG)

Physical activity

Incidental and Planned Exercise Questionnaire for the Usual week (IPEQ-WA)* [32]

Endurance

Endurance measure (2-min walk test, 6-min walk for those who are sufficiently mobile)

Gait

Single and dual task gait assessments

Grip strength

Hand-held dynamometer

Falls#

N/A

Palliative measures

Advance Care Plan data

N/A

Palliative symptom burden

Edmonton Symptom Assessment System Scale for Parkinson’s Disease (ESAS-R-PD) [33]

Palliative outcome score-symptoms-Parkinson’s Disease (POS-S-PD) [34]

Presence of gold standard framework register

Hospice utilisation outside place of death

Healthcare contacts with hospice and / or palliative care services

Use of anticipatory medication

Social

Loneliness/social isolation

3-item Revised-UCLA Loneliness Scale plus a single item direct measure of loneliness [35]

Social participation

English Longitudinal Study of Ageing questions (ELSA)* [36]

Perceived social support

Multidimensional scale of perceived social support [37]

Coping strategy

BriefCOPE [38]

Acceptance of illness

Acceptance of illness scale [39]

Capability

ICEpop CAPability measure for Older people (ICECAP-O)* [40]

Patient activation

Patient Activation Measure (PAM) [41]

Economic measures

Health-related quality of life

EuroQoL 5D-5L health status questionnaire (EQ-5D-5L)* [42]

Mortality#

N/A

Healthcare events (including elective & unplanned admissions, emergency department attendances, outpatient appointments, primary care contacts, investigations and prescriptions, discharge destination)

Captured from hospital and GP records and participant self-report

Process measures

Frequency of Parkinson’s follow-up and referral to, and review, by allied health professionals (intervention and control arms)

N/A

Frequency and type of engagement with PRIME Parkinson care (intervention arm)

N/A

Experience of holistic patient-centred care

Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care measure (PACIC) - 26 item [43, 44]

  1. *=outcomes that will be completed by a representative who knows the patient well, where the patient cannot self-complete; #=outcome measures which will also be assessed at 3, 6, 9, 15, 18 and 21 months. The following parameters will be assessed at baseline and/or at 12/24 months but are not outcome measures per se: fracture risk using FRAX* [45] and/or QFracture* [46] with bone densitometry where required; habitual dietary intake using the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer Food frequency questionnaire* [47]; comorbidity using Cumulative Illness Rating Scale-Geriatrics [48]; cognition using Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) [49]. Place and date of death, where applicable, will also be captured