European Compliance Study in Parkinson's Disease

Inclusion Criteria:

• Men or Women between 18 and 80 years.
• Patient has idiopathic Parkinson's Disease according to Brain Bank criteria. - Reference Hughes A J, Daniel S E, Kilford L, Lees A J, Accuracy of Clinical - Diagnosis of Idiopathic Parkinson's disease; A clinical Pathological study of 100 cases, JNNP 1992, 55(3): 181 - 184
• Patient is on stable doses of anti-Parkinson's disease medication, which are not expected to change during the study period.
• Patient is taking levodopa and/or dopamine agonist treatment.
• Patient (assisted by a carer where appropriate) is able to take their medication using the MEMS (electronic monitoring) containers.
• Patients using a dosette box or similar device for their medication are willing to use the MEMS containers for their PD medication
• The investigator judges that the patient's care and symptom control will not be adversely affected by entering the study and using the MEMS device.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient is taking anti-Parkinson's disease therapy intermittently or on "as required" basis (such as rescue therapy for off periods). Intermittent Domperidone is allowed.
• Severe co-morbid condition such as severe heart, liver, or kidney disease or cancer diagnosis where the co-morbid condition is of greater health significance than the Parkinson's disease in terms of life expectancy and levels of care required.
• Patient is expected to undergo hospital admission during the study period (such as elective surgery).
• Patient is on non standard drug treatment / combination therapy. This would include e.g. a combination of 2 different oral dopamine agonists, doses of dopamine agonist taken at higher than recommended for routine practice.
• New antiparkinson treatment is being introduced at the time of recruitment or during the one month monitoring period.
• Patient is taking only adjunct therapy (eg. Selegiline, Amantadine, anticholinergic therapy).
• Patient is taking part in a clinical trial.