She encouraged universities to harmonize their efforts with NTD networks and global health initiatives for the dual purposes of enhancing awareness of disease-specific needs at the university and bolstering administrative support.
The review also highlights that preferences and adherence to physical activity programmes differ across a range of demographic, medical and behavioural variables, suggesting the importance of tailoring exercise programmes to patient- and disease-specific needs.
Metal implant allergy still remains a diagnosis of exclusion, with a delay in diagnosis due to missing disease specific criteria and need of combining different diagnostic steps.
21 22 An individually tailored, disease specific training programme is needed to improve physical activity in Parkinson's disease.
These individuals often receive care in local settings from healthcare providers with little or no experience treating their disease and without knowledge about the specific needs of people with the disease.
By anticipating on expected disease scenario's and the specific needs and wishes of a patient, problems can be prevented and hence quality of life improves.
This indicates a need of disease specific investigations within the large public health diseases, aiming at informing future strategic efforts and national guidelines.
There is a need for disease specific scoring systems that are quick, easy to perform, reliable and valid for classifying disease severity.
Future controlled randomized trials comparing different cardiac rehabilitation programs using a single core heart disease specific PRO outcome measure are needed.
Models of care that embrace all end-of-life paths and meet the common but also the specific needs of every disease must be developed.
We created an extended version of the vocabulary to meet the genetic disease-specific curation needs at MGI.
