Diagnostic needs for rare diseases and shared prediagnostic phenomena: Results of a German-wide expert Delphi survey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Blöß, Susanne ^a   Klemann, Christian ^b   Rother, Ann Katrin ^a   Mehmecke, Sandra ^a   Schumacher, Ulrike ^c   Mücke, Urs ^a   Mücke, Martin ^d   Stieber, Christiane ^d   Klawonn, Frank ^e,f   Kortum, Xiaowei ^e   Lechner, Werner ^g   Grigull, Lorenz ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c DRK Clementinenkrankenhaus   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^e OSTFALIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^f HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^g Improved Medical Diagnostics IMD GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; CLUSTER HEADACHE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DELPHI STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME; FABRY DISEASE; FANCONI ANEMIA; FEMALE; FEVER; GERMANY; GLAUCOMA; GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE TYPE 2; GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE TYPE 5; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; HURLER SYNDROME; LEUKODYSTROPHY; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NIEMANN PICK DISEASE; ORNITHINE TRANSCARBAMYLASE DEFICIENCY; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RARE DISEASE; SCLERODERMA; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; UREA CYCLE DISORDER; WILSON DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CLASSIFICATION; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE TYPE II; HYPERTENSION; METABOLIC DISEASES; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RARE DISEASES; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SELF HELP; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADULT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; GERMANY; GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE TYPE II; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METABOLIC DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; RARE DISEASES; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 85013953929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172532     Document Type: Article

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