Care Patterns in Multiple Sclerosis: Principal Care, Comprehensive Team Care, Consortium Care

Issue title: Model Systems of Care

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Halper, June^a | Burks, Jack S.^b

Affiliations: [a] Bernard W. Gimbel Multiple Sclerosis Comprehensive Care Center at Holy Name Hospital, Teaneck, NJ | [b] Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center, Englewood, CO

Abstract: Health care for multiple sclerosis has evolved over the past two decades from fragmented, sporadic, and crisis-oriented interventions to an organized system of services. The proliferation of comprehensive care centers and the development of a network of health care providers have provided a model for other chronic neurologic illnesses. In addition, concepts such as principal care and maintenance therapy may prove to be relevant to care in multiple sclerosis.

Keywords: Principal care, comprehensive care, consortium care

DOI: 10.3233/NRE-1994-4203

Journal: NeuroRehabilitation, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 67-75, 1994