Time to involve the multiple sclerosis expert community at large when revising the McDonald diagnostic criteria. Mult Scler Relat Disord 2024 Feb;82:105389
Date
12/21/2023Pubmed ID
38118288DOI
10.1016/j.msard.2023.105389Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85180351134 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)Abstract
Prof. Kurtzke once said, "Multiple sclerosis is what a good clinician would call multiple sclerosis." Recent McDonald's diagnostic criteria revisions have allowed for earlier diagnoses over the past decades. Revisions often allowed increasing sensitivity but at the expense of lowering specificity. In this correspondence, I suggest that the multiple sclerosis expert community worldwide should be given the opportunity to comment and provide feedback on the proposed revisions of the diagnostic criteria before their publication via providing a duration where open commentaries are welcomed to allow for the expert panel to incorporate diverse feedback to improve the final product.
Author List
Obeidat AZAuthor
Ahmed Zayed Obeidat MD, PhD Associate Professor in the Neurology department at Medical College of WisconsinMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
Early DiagnosisHumans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Multiple Sclerosis
