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Is There a Right to Get a Right Diagnosis Whenever Possible? Ethical and Social Issues in Dealing with Undiagnosed Rare Diseases

2018-05-31

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The time required to reach a correct diagnosis is one of the most important problems for rare disease (RD) patients. Diagnostic delay can be intolerably long, to the point that it is usually described as a “diagnostic odyssey” and, sometimes, a diagnosis might never occur. The International Rare Disease Research Consortium proposed, as ultimate goal for 2017-2027, to enable all people with a suspected...

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Literature Corpus work: 2a295a15-04df-5809-a1fb-1b9457c780c0
DOI: 10.20944/preprints201805.0463.v1

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