Erratum: Author Correction: Using a smartphone-based self-management platform to support medication adherence and clinical consultation in Parkinson's disease.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1038/s41531-016-0003-z.].

Using a smartphone-based self-management platform to support medication adherence and clinical consultation in Parkinson's disease.

The progressive nature of Parkinson's disease, its complex treatment regimens and the high rates of comorbid conditions make self-management and treatment adherence a challenge. Clinicians have limited face-to-face consultation time with Parkinson's disease patients, making it difficult to comprehensively address non-adherence. Here we share the results from a multi-centre (seven centres) randomised controlled trial conducted in England and Scotland to assess the impact of using a smartphone-based Parkinson's tracker app to promote patient self-management, enhance treatment adherence and quality of clinical consultation.

Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Professional Networks for PD A Mixed-Method Analysis.

Background: ParkinsonNet, a nationwide organization with regionally oriented professional health networks in TheNetherlands, aims to improve the quality of Parkinson care. Facilitation of multidisciplinary collaboration is a key objective of ParkinsonNet.

Objectives: This study examined whether the concept enhances multidisciplinary collaboration between healthcare professionals involved in Parkinson care.

Capturing patients' experiences to change Parkinson's disease care delivery: a multicenter study.

Capturing patients' perspectives has become an essential part of a quality of care assessment. The patient centeredness questionnaire for PD (PCQ-PD) has been validated in The Netherlands as an instrument to measure patients' experiences. This study aims to assess the level of patient centeredness in North American Parkinson centers and to demonstrate the PCQ-PD's potential as a quality improvement instrument.

Personal health communities: a phenomenological study of a new health-care concept.

Context: Fragmentation of care, complexity of diseases and the need to involve patients actively in their individual health care led to the development of the personal health community (PHC). In a PHC, patients can -regardless of the nature of their condition- invite all professionals that are involved in their health care process. Once gathered, the patient and health care team can exchange information about the patient's health and communicate through several functionalities, in a secured environment.

Using online health communities to deliver patient-centered care to people with chronic conditions.

Background: Our health care system faces major threats as the number of people with multiple chronic conditions rises dramatically.

Objective: To study the use of Online Health Communities (OHCs) as a tool to facilitate high-quality and affordable health care for future generations.

Methods: OHCs are Internet-based platforms that unite either a group of patients, a group of professionals, or a mixture of both.

Moving from physician-centered care towards patient-centered care for Parkinson's disease patients.

Today's society is changing rapidly and individuals increasingly favor an active role in designing their own lives. Contemporary patients are no exception, but the present health care system-which is organized primarily from the provider's perspective-is not yet prepared for this development. Here, we argue that an alternative way to organize health care, namely more from the patient's perspective, may help to contain costs, while improving the quality, safety and access to care.

Patient-centeredness in PD care: development and validation of a patient experience questionnaire.

Introduction: Patient-centeredness is increasingly recognized as a crucial element of quality of care. A suitable instrument to assess the level of patient-centeredness for Parkinson's disease (PD) care is lacking. Here we describe the development and validation of the Patient-Centered Questionnaire for PD (PCQ-PD), and its initial application in a large patient sample.

Connectedness of healthcare professionals involved in the treatment of patients with Parkinson's disease: a social networks study.

Background: Patients with chronic illness typically receive ambulatory treatment from multiple health professionals. Connectedness between these professionals may influence their clinical decisions and the coordination of patient care. We aimed to describe and analyze connectedness in a regional network of health professionals involved in ambulatory treatment of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD).

[Insufficient medication compliance in Parkinson's disease].

Medication compliance is generally suboptimal, particularly in patients with complex polypharmacy. This generic treatment problem is described here for Parkinson's disease (PD). We would expect patients with PD to have good medication compliance, since missed doses immediately result in worsening of symptoms.

Moving towards patient-centered healthcare for patients with Parkinson's disease.

Introduction: Quality of care is becoming increasingly important in the field of movement disorders. Patient-centeredness is a crucial element of quality of care, but has thus far received limited attention regarding the treatment of movement disorder syndromes. As a first step towards patient-centered care in Parkinson's disease (PD), we explored the unmet needs of PD patients and their informal caregivers.

Quantification of trunk rotations during turning and walking in Parkinson's disease.

Objective: To develop a reliable, objective and sensitive measure of axial trunk rotations in PD, which can be applied in an ambulatory setting.

Methods: To quantify turning motion, two angular velocity transducers attached to the lower back measured angular velocity of the trunk in the yaw plane (i.e.