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Huntington’s Disease Outpatient Clinic for Functional Diagnosis and Treatment: Coming to Consensus: How Long Term Care Facility Procedures Complement Specialist Diagnosis and Treatment

Huntington’s disease (HD) patients and families deserve expert treatment and care throughout their lives, but uniformity in functional diagnosis and treatment was lacking. In the aim of reaching this uniformity on day-to-day treatment and care offered by multidisciplinary outreach teams from Dutch l...

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Autores principales: Veenhuizen, Ruth, Nijsten, Hanneke, van Roosmalen, Paul, Lammertsen, Karen, Stor, Tom, de Jager, Lia, de Man, Jesseke, van der Doelen, Rina, Landa, Karin, Grond, Vera, Heffels, Joyce, Groenewoud, Rinske, Rovers, Luce, Bakker, Christian, Leiwakabessy, Saskia, van der Wedden, Dirk, van Blitterswijk, Jacqueline, van den Bosch, Dieuwke
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: IOS Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6004894/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29843250
http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JHD-180298
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Sumario:Huntington’s disease (HD) patients and families deserve expert treatment and care throughout their lives, but uniformity in functional diagnosis and treatment was lacking. In the aim of reaching this uniformity on day-to-day treatment and care offered by multidisciplinary outreach teams from Dutch long term care facilities for ambulatory HD patients, a consensus trajectory was started to harmonise our care programme with international standards and within the country. The consensus statements, given as supplementary material, should lead to expert treatment and care for HD families throughout the Netherlands and this manuscript should contribute and revitalise a global discussion on standards of treatment and care.