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Parkinson’s KinetiGraph, PKG

Monitoring patients with Parkinson’s Disease is valuable in disease management in order to follow symptom severity, disease progression and treatment response. This implies using different measures of disease ratings scales. Rating scales used in Parkinson’s Disease is usually performed with rating items which are subjective and qualitative.

Parkinson’s KinetiGraph (PKG) is a wearable technology for an objective and quantitative measure of symptom severity which quantifies motor disturbances (dyskinesias and bradykinesias) reflecting disease severity.

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SBU Enquiry Service

Consists of structured literature searches to highlight studies that can address questions received by the SBU Enquiry Service from Swedish healthcare or social service providers. We assess the risk of bias in systematic reviews and when needed also quality and transferability of results in health economic studies. Relevant references are compiled by an SBU staff member, in consultation with an external expert when needed.

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Is PKG a validated method to measure motor disturbances in Parkinson’s Disease?

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Parkinson disease Motor disturbance Wearable monitor
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