Table 4.
Correlations between physician’s judgment of APD and individual Delphi criteria for APD
| Odds ratio | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prognostic parameter | Regression coefficient | Adjusted estimate | 95% Wald CI | p value | |
| Troublesome motor fluctuations (severity level, moderate/severe versus mild) |
0.1122 | 1.119 | 0.743 | 1.684 | 0.5909 |
| “Off” time (hours/waking day, ≥ 2 h versus < 2 h |
0.0190 | 1.019 | 0.691 | 1.503 | 0.9235 |
| Nighttime sleep disturbances (severity level, moderate/severe versus mild) |
0.0167 | 1.017 | 0.744 | 1.389 | 0.9166 |
| Troublesome dyskinesia (hours/waking day, ≥ 2 h versus < 2 h) |
0.3610 | 1.435 | 0.827 | 2.490 | 0.1993 |
| Non-motor fluctuations present (yes versus no) |
0.1763 | 1.193 | 0.893 | 1.593 | 0.2322 |
| “Off” time at least every 3 h (yes versus no) |
0.3944 | 1.483 | 0.978 | 2.251 | 0.0638 |
| ≥ 5 times daily oral levodopa dosing (yes versus no) |
0.7417 | 2.100 | 1.544 | 2.854 | < 0.0001 a |
| Activities of daily living limitation (severity level, moderate/severe versus mild) |
0.5389 | 1.714 | 1.213 | 2.422 | 0.0022 a |
| Falling (frequency, most/all the time versus some of the time) |
0.0432 | 1.044 | 0.397 | 2.744 | 0.9302 |
| Dementia (severity level, moderate/severe versus mild) |
−0.4134 | 0.661 | 0.399 | 1.097 | 0.1093 |
| Psychosis (severity level, moderate/severe versus mild) |
0.5745 | 1.776 | 0.846 | 3.731 | 0.1291 |
aCorrelations with physician’s judgment were significant for the Delphi criteria ≥5 times daily oral levodopa dosing (p < 0.0001) and activities of daily living limitation (p = 0.0022). APD advanced Parkinson’s disease, CI confidence interval