Development of early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease and comprehensive economic analysis of the effect of its implementation

This approach can also be used to verify blood markers identified in patients at the clinical stage of PD. It is also evident that the complex socioeconomic factors influencing the incidence of PD is different in developed versus developing countries. The societal and medical costs of Parkinson’s are huge and efforts to improve early preclinical diagnosis of PD will lead to considerable economical and societal benefits. For instance this will allow efficient selection of patients for preclinical diagnostic tests. To assess the effectiveness of this strategy considering the uncertainty of socio-economic issues, a modification of the «cost-utility» analysis is proposed. For the first time, a Markov model of PD including preclinical diagnostic tests and possible neuroprotective therapy was developed and studied. Analytical outcomes of this process suggest that the idea of developing a new multimodal strategy is promising from a socio-economic point of view CLICK TO REVIEW