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European Academy of Neurology guidance for developing and reporting clinical pr...
Aleksovska, Katina; Kobulashvili, Teia; Costa, João; Zimmermann, Georg; Ritchie, Karen; Reinhard, Carola; Vignatelli, Luca; Fanciulli, AlessandraBackground and purpose: Rare diseases affect up to 29 million people in the European Union, and almost 50% of them affect the nervous system or muscles. Delays in diagnosis and treatment onset and insufficient treatment choices are common. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) may improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients and optimize care pathways, delivering the best scientific evidence to all clinicians ...
Prioritization process for European Academy of Neurology clinical practice guid...
Aleksovska, Katina; Bassetti, Claudio L. A.; Berger, Thomas; Carvalho, Vanessa; Costa, João; Deuschl, Günther; Frederiksen, Kristian S.; Jaarsma, JokeBackground and purpose: The development of high-quality clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) takes substantial time, effort, and resources. During the past years, the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) guideline production was significantly increased, so the need to develop clear, transparent, and methodologically solid criteria for prioritizing guideline topics became apparent. With this paper, we aim to defin...
Guidelines should be guidelines: time to leave the terms "consensus" and "posit...
Aleksovska, Katina; Bassetti, Claudio L. A.; Berger, Thomas; Carvalho, Vanessa; Costa, João; Deuschl, Günther; Frederiksen, Kristian SteenClinical guidelines are “statements that include recommendations, intended to optimize patient care, that are informed by a systematic review of evidence and an assessment of the benefits and harms of alternative care options”. Clinical guidelines are increasingly becoming a part of neurology clinical practice, most probably because they may improve patient clinical outcomes. Methods and strategies intended to ...