Large-scale cross-sectional online survey on patient-neurologist communication, burden of disease assessment and disease monitoring in people with multiple sclerosis

ABSTRACT:

Background

Management of multiple sclerosis (MS) requires a high level of communication between health care professionals (HCPs) and people with MS (pwMS) including profound investigation and discussion of symptoms to identify therapeutic needs. For treatment decisions, monitoring of disease activity is important, in this respect self-monitoring devices and apps, as well as magnetic resonance imaging are important tools.

Methods

MS Perspectives is a cross-sectional online survey conducted in Germany which was designed to collect data, among others, on the communication between pwMS and HCPs regarding treatment goals, symptom assessment, usage of devices and apps to self-monitor health functions, as well as to identify patients' attitude toward the role of magnetic resonan

SUBMITTER: Christ M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9848394 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature