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. 2018 Oct 18;4(Suppl 1):e000790.
doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2018-000790. eCollection 2018.

Ehlers-Danlos syndromes: state of the art on clinical practice guidelines

Alberto Sulli  1 , Rosaria Talarico  2 , Carlo Alberto Scirè  3 , Tadej Avcin  4 , Marco Castori  5 , Alessandro Ferraris  6 , Charissa Frank  7 , Jürgen Grunert  8 , Sabrina Paolino  1 , Stefano Bombardieri  9 , Matthias Schneider  10 , Vanessa Smith  11   12 , Maurizio Cutolo  1 , Marta Mosca  13 , Fransiska Malfait  14
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Ehlers-Danlos syndromes: state of the art on clinical practice guidelines

Alberto Sulli et al. RMD Open. .

Abstract

Objective: To report the effort of the European Reference Network for Rare and Complex CONnective tissue and musculoskeletal diseases NETwork working group on Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) and related disorders to assess current available clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) specifically addressed to EDS, in order to identify potential clinician and patient unmet needs.

Methods: Systematic literature search in PUBMED and EMBASE based on controlled terms (MeSH and Emtree) and keywords of the disease and publication type (CPGs). All the published articles were revised in order to identify existing CPGs on diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of EDS.

Results: Literature revision detected the absence of papers reporting good quality CPGs to optimise EDS patient care. The current evidence-based literature regarding clinical guidelines for the EDS was limited in size and quality, and there is insufficient research exploring the clinical features and interventions, and clinical decision-making are currently based on theoretical and limited research evidences.

Conclusions: Many clinician and patient unmet needs have been identified.

Keywords: ERN ReCONNET; Ehlers-Danlos syndromes; European Reference Networks; clinical practice guidelines; unmet needs.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared

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Flowchart of literature revision to identify current available clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) specifically addressed to Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes (EDS) on diagnosis, monitoring and treatment, according to the Institute of Medicine 2011 definition (ref. 7).
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