title: Chiari and Syringomyelia Consortium: a model of multidisciplinary and sharing path for rare diseases.
abstract: Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta Interregional Network for Rare Diseases (RD) is a model of "diffuse" network; it involves all the health system specialists devoted to the diagnosis, the therapy and the follow-up of a RD. The Consortium is a multidisciplinary team operating throughout the Region composed of volunteer Physicians and Biologists that promotes periodical meetings to develop shared protocols. In 2008 the Specialist-Technical Committee for the Interregional RD Network approved the set up of the "Chiari and Syringomyelia Consortium" (CSC) with two specific objectives: to identify the shared diagnostic criteria and to develop the interdisciplinary diagnostic-therapeutic-assistance path (DTAP) to be used interregionally. Other objectives are: to define the prevalence of the pathologies (both symptomatic and asymptomatic, both in adults and children) and to improve collaboration between the patient Associations and the Physicians.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Neurophysiology Unit, AOU CTO, Turin, Italy. p_ciaramitaro@libero.it
authors.forename: Palma
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ciaramitaro
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Baldovino
authors.forename: Dario
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Roccatello
authors.forename: Edo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bottacchi
authors.forename: Giuliano
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Faccani
mesh_terms: D001139:Arnold-Chiari Malformation / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D058025:Interdisciplinary Studies; D008297:Male; D035583:Rare Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013595:Syringomyelia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy