Intuitive Staging Correlates With King's Clinical Stage.

ABSTRACT: Background: Clinical stage in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) can be assigned using King's staging with a simple protocol based on the number of CNS regions involved and the presence of significant nutritional or respiratory failure. It is important that the assigned clinical stage matches expectations, and generally corresponds with how a health care professional would intuitively stage the patient. We therefore investigated the relationship between King's clinical ALS stage and ALS stage as intuitively assigned by health care professionals. Methods: We wrote 17 case vignettes describing people with ALS at different disease stages from very early limited disease involvement through to severe, multi-domain disease. During two workshops, we asked health care professionals

SUBMITTER: Al Khleifat A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7611335 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature