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Multiple Sclerosis Patient Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Practical Recommendations From the Portuguese Multiple Sclerosis Study Group (GEEM)
The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed significant challenges on healthcare provision, requiring changes in the conventional patient management, particularly in chronic diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS). To increase patient safety and reduce the risk of infection, while ensuring an appr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8006454/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33790847 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.613769 |
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author | Cerqueira, João J. Ladeira, Ana F. Silva, Ana M. Timóteo, Ângela Vale, José Sousa, Lívia Arenga, Marta Abreu, Pedro Guerreiro, Rui de Sá, João |
author_facet | Cerqueira, João J. Ladeira, Ana F. Silva, Ana M. Timóteo, Ângela Vale, José Sousa, Lívia Arenga, Marta Abreu, Pedro Guerreiro, Rui de Sá, João |
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description | The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed significant challenges on healthcare provision, requiring changes in the conventional patient management, particularly in chronic diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS). To increase patient safety and reduce the risk of infection, while ensuring an appropriate and regular follow-up, tele-medicine gained prominence as a valid alternative to face-to-face appointments. However, the urgency of the implementation and the lack of experience in most MS centers led to “ad hoc” and extremely diverse approaches, which now merit to be standardized and refined. Indeed, while tele-consultation cannot fully replace face-to-face visits, it certainly can, and will, be incorporated as part of the routine care of MS patients in the near future. Bearing this in mind, the Portuguese Multiple Sclerosis Study Group (GEEM) has developed a set of recommendations for the usage of tele-medicine in the management of MS patients, both during the pandemic and in the future. The consensus was obtained through a two-step modified Delphi methodology, resulting in 15 recommendations, which are detailed in the manuscript. |
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spelling | pubmed-80064542021-03-30 Multiple Sclerosis Patient Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Practical Recommendations From the Portuguese Multiple Sclerosis Study Group (GEEM) Cerqueira, João J. Ladeira, Ana F. Silva, Ana M. Timóteo, Ângela Vale, José Sousa, Lívia Arenga, Marta Abreu, Pedro Guerreiro, Rui de Sá, João Front Neurol Neurology The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed significant challenges on healthcare provision, requiring changes in the conventional patient management, particularly in chronic diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS). To increase patient safety and reduce the risk of infection, while ensuring an appropriate and regular follow-up, tele-medicine gained prominence as a valid alternative to face-to-face appointments. However, the urgency of the implementation and the lack of experience in most MS centers led to “ad hoc” and extremely diverse approaches, which now merit to be standardized and refined. Indeed, while tele-consultation cannot fully replace face-to-face visits, it certainly can, and will, be incorporated as part of the routine care of MS patients in the near future. Bearing this in mind, the Portuguese Multiple Sclerosis Study Group (GEEM) has developed a set of recommendations for the usage of tele-medicine in the management of MS patients, both during the pandemic and in the future. The consensus was obtained through a two-step modified Delphi methodology, resulting in 15 recommendations, which are detailed in the manuscript. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8006454/ /pubmed/33790847 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.613769 Text en Copyright © 2021 Cerqueira, Ladeira, Silva, Timóteo, Vale, Sousa, Arenga, Abreu, Guerreiro and de Sá. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Neurology Cerqueira, João J. Ladeira, Ana F. Silva, Ana M. Timóteo, Ângela Vale, José Sousa, Lívia Arenga, Marta Abreu, Pedro Guerreiro, Rui de Sá, João Multiple Sclerosis Patient Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Practical Recommendations From the Portuguese Multiple Sclerosis Study Group (GEEM) |
title | Multiple Sclerosis Patient Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Practical Recommendations From the Portuguese Multiple Sclerosis Study Group (GEEM) |
title_full | Multiple Sclerosis Patient Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Practical Recommendations From the Portuguese Multiple Sclerosis Study Group (GEEM) |
title_fullStr | Multiple Sclerosis Patient Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Practical Recommendations From the Portuguese Multiple Sclerosis Study Group (GEEM) |
title_full_unstemmed | Multiple Sclerosis Patient Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Practical Recommendations From the Portuguese Multiple Sclerosis Study Group (GEEM) |
title_short | Multiple Sclerosis Patient Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Practical Recommendations From the Portuguese Multiple Sclerosis Study Group (GEEM) |
title_sort | multiple sclerosis patient management during the covid-19 pandemic: practical recommendations from the portuguese multiple sclerosis study group (geem) |
topic | Neurology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8006454/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33790847 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.613769 |
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