Development and validation of the Myasthenia Gravis TeleScore (MGTS)

Objective The aim of our study was to validate the Myasthenia Gravis TeleScore (MGTS), a scale for the evaluation of MG patients in telemedicine. Introduction COVID-19 pandemic has boosted telemedicine in clinical practice. It could be crucial in the care of neurological patients with chronic diseas...

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Published in:Neurological sciences 2022-07, Vol.43 (7), p.4503-4509
Main Authors: Pasqualin, F., Guidoni, S. V., Albertini, E., Ermani, M., Frangiamore, R., Vanoli, F., Antozzi, C., Mantegazza, R., Bonifati, D. M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chronic illnesses
COVID-19
Kruskal-Wallis test
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Muscle strength
Myasthenia
Myasthenia gravis
Neurology
Neuromuscular junctions
Neuroradiology
Neurosciences
Neurosurgery
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Patients
Psychiatry
Telemedicine
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Summary:Objective The aim of our study was to validate the Myasthenia Gravis TeleScore (MGTS), a scale for the evaluation of MG patients in telemedicine. Introduction COVID-19 pandemic has boosted telemedicine in clinical practice. It could be crucial in the care of neurological patients with chronic disease. However, there is a lack of validated disease-specific tools to evaluate MG patients in telemedicine. Methods The MGTS included ten items divided in four districts: ocular, generalized muscular strength, bulbar, and respiratory. Patients were assessed with two different scales: the MGTS and the INCB-MG chosen as a reference from which MGTS was partially derived. Visit in presence with INCB-MG and televisit with MGTS were performed consecutively. Televisit was conducted by another neurologist between two rooms. A blind method was adopted. The strength of correlation was determined by the correlation coefficient ( r ); analysis of covariance (ANOVA—Kruskal–Wallis test) was used to compare subgroups. Significance was set to p  
ISSN:1590-1874
1590-3478
DOI:10.1007/s10072-022-05918-y