Guidelines and care pathways for genetic diseases: the Scottish collaborative project on tuberous sclerosis.
In Scotland a national audit project has been undertaken to devise evidence-based guidelines for the clinical management of patients with tuberous sclerosis (TS), a dominantly inherited multisystem disorder. In order to facilitate the audit and use of these guidelines a 'Care Pathway' was devised to form the patient records. We describe the process of guideline development for TS and our TS Care Pathway.
Bradshaw
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Department of Clinical Genetics, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland. nb@srvO.med.ed.ac.uk
Brewer
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C
FitzPatrick
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D
Murray
G
G
Rodgers
F
F
Porteous
M
M
Campbell
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H
D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D008485:Medical Audit; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012606:Scotland; D014402:Tuberous Sclerosis / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*