Efficient Study Designs for the Early-Stage Evaluation of Disease-Modifying Treatments in Parkinson Disease

Andreas Ziegler1, Matthias Schmid1

  • 1From the Cardio-CARE (A.Z.), Medizincampus Davos, Davos, Switzerland; Department of Cardiology (A.Z.); Center for Population Health Innovation (POINT) (A.Z.), University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; School of Mathematics (A.Z.), Statistics and Computer Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; Institute of Medical Biometry (M.S.), Informatics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bonn; and German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) (M.S.), Bonn, Germany.

Neurology
|December 6, 2024
PubMed
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