Resource Bulletins
- The National Multiple Sclerosis Society as a Resource for MS Healthcare Professionals (.pdf)
- Community Resources for Your Patients with MS (.pdf)
Patient Care
AAN Practice Guidelines
Current AAN clinical practice guidelines and related tools, including patient and physician summaries of selected guidelines. Additional tools and new guidelines added regularly
www.aan.com
Clinical Tool for Injection Anxiety
Patient Workbook and Counselor Manual for people with MS unable to self-inject their disease-modifying medications due to anxiety
Supporting MS-Related Disability Claims to Private Insurers: The Physician’s Role (.pdf)
This guide provides clinicians with a checklist of things to include in their supporting statement to document their MS patients’ claims for disability benefits. Click here for other manuals in this series including manuals written for people with MS, and for claims professionals in the disability insurance industry.
Health Insurance Appeal Letters: A Toolkit for Clinicians (.pdf)
Includes:
- Overview of the appeals process
- Template appeal letters on CD
- Citations and abstracts, plus National MS Society consensus documents, to support clinical recommendations
- Guide to additional resources and publications
"McDonald Criteria" for the Diagnosis of MS
The 2005 Revisions to the "McDonald Criteria" for the Diagnosis of MS were published in late 2005. Tools for implementing the diagnostic criteria-adapted from Polman et al. Diagnostic Criteria for Multiple Sclerosis: 2005 Revisions to the "McDonald" Criteria. Annals of Neurology (2005) 58: 840-846:
- Tip Sheet (.pdf)
- Pocket Card (.pdf) summarizing revised diagnostic criteria
(For hard copy of card, contact MD_info@nmss.org)
Rehabilitation Assessment Measures in MS (.pdf)
Many of the tools commonly used in rehabilitation assessment of patients with MS