Table 6.

Source of knowledge for patients and caregiver on the advanced therapies and on MD implementing centers

	LCIG (N = 53)	CSAI (N = 19)	SOC (N = 54)
Information on MD centers
General practitioner	11 (21%)	4 (21%)	13 (24%)
Community neurologist	21 (40%)	5 (26%)	15 (28%)
Media	7 (13%)	1 (5%)	5 (9%)
Patients’ association	2 (4%)	2 (11%)	4 (7%)
Others patients	13 (25%)	6 (32%)	12 (22%)
Other sources of information	11 (21%)	5 (26%)	12 (22%)

	LCIG (N = 53)	CSAI (N = 19)	SOC (N = 51)
Caregivers knowledge on advanced treatments
Constantly informed	38 (72%)	17 (89%)	18 (35%)
Partially informed	13 (26%)	2 (11%)	22 (43%)
Not informed	2 (4%)	0	11 (22%)

Source of first information received on advanced PD treatment options
Neurologist of the MD center	41 (77%)	16 (84%)
Community neurologist	7 (13%)	0
Media	1 (2%)	0
Other patients	2 (4%)	3 (16%)
General Practitioner	1 (2%)	0