Guidelines on rare diseases: Methods on handling evidence neither identified nor required

Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 09:30 in Health & Medicine

People with rare diseases have the same right to high-quality health care in line with current medical knowledge as other patients do. However, relevant and reliable clinical studies on rare diseases are often lacking. Among other things, this makes the development of corresponding guidelines more difficult, but precisely such guidelines could help improve treatment quality.

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