Table 2.

Spearman’s correlation between insertion effect and postoperative effect.

Coagulation Attempt	Outcome Measure	Spearman’s ρ	R2	95% CI	p
Only first attempts	MDS-UPDRS sum scores	0.863	0.745	0.693, 0.942	<0.001
	Summed AUCP	0.975	0.951	0.940, 0.990	<0.001
	Summed Amplitude	0.690	0.476	0.377, 0.861	<0.001
Only final attempts	MDS-UPDRS sum scores	0.967	0.934	0.920, 0.986	<0.001
	Summed AUCP	0.898	0.807	0.766, 0.957	<0.001
	Summed Amplitude	0.783	0.612	0.538, 0.906	<0.001