Do you typically recommend sleep studies for patients with Parkinsonism?

Not necessarily. If there is concern for sleep apnea (i.e., snoring, etc), then it would be worth doing, as a CPAP can be helpful for sleep quality, but I have found most sleep labs (this includes both community and university-based) are not great at otherwise diagnosing/accounting for other sleep a...

I would not necessarily get a sleep study on a patient just because they have Parkinsonism. It has been reported that patients with Parkinson's disease, not Parkinsonism, have about the same prevalence of sleep disordered breathing as the general population. That being said, my threshold for getting...

The typical PD patient does not require a mandatory sleep study unless complaining of EDS without a clear explanation.

In atypical cases, it can serve as a marker and may be useful.