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- Title
Prognostic information for people with MS: Impossible or inevitable?
- Authors
Heesen, Christoph; Scalfari, Antonio; Galea, Ian
- Abstract
Delivering prognostic information is a challenging issue in medicine and has been largely neglected in the past. A major reason has been a suspected nocebo effect of pessimistic estimates, although this is largely unproven. Among people with multiple sclerosis (MS), there is a strong unmet need to receive long-term prognostic information. This viewpoint discusses reasons for this blind spot in physicians' attitude, foremost among which is the uncertainty of prognostic estimates. Possible strategies to move forward include tools to identify matching patients from large well-defined databases, to deliver an evidence-based individualized estimate of long-term prognosis, and its confidence interval, in a clinical setting.
- Subjects
MULTIPLE sclerosis; CONFIDENCE intervals
- Publication
Multiple Sclerosis Journal, 2020, Vol 26, Issue 7, p771
- ISSN
1352-4585
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1352458518807101