Evaluation of Motor Complications in Parkinson’s Disease: Understanding the Perception Gap between Patients and Physicians

Table 2

Physician demographics.

Characteristic	N = 92
Age, years, n (%)
≥30 to <40	10 (10.9)
≥40 to <50	29 (31.5)
≥50 to <60	38 (41.3)
≥60	15 (16.3)
Male, n (%)	87 (94.6)
No. of patients with PD examined/month, mean (SD)	40.5 (48.3)
Type of hospital or clinic, n (%)
University hospital	6 (6.5)
Public hospital	13 (14.1)
Other hospital	40 (43.5)
Clinic	32 (34.8)
Other	1 (1.1)
Clinical department, n (%)
General internal medicine	17 (18.5)
Neurology	52 (56.5)
Neurosurgery	14 (15.2)
Psychiatry	9 (9.8)
Affiliated academic society, n (%)
Movement Disorder Society of Japan	12 (13.0)
Japanese Society of Neurology	60 (65.2)
The Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine	14 (15.2)
The Japanese Society of Neuropathology	4 (4.3)
None of the above	27 (29.3)

PD: Parkinson's disease; SD: standard deviation.