Strengthening clinical capacity in spinal muscular atrophy: Developing and implementing training on clinical outcome assessments
Peer-led, evidence-informed workshops significantly improved clinical preparedness in SMA assessment. These findings support the need for ongoing training strategies and demonstrate the RKMMF as a scalable approach for capacity-building in rare disease care.
Authors
- Stacey Lintern
- Homira Osman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4225-9075)
- Lochmüller Hanns
- C. Nguyen
- Cynthia Gagnon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2829-8470)
- Xavier Rodrigue (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4886-8840)
- Erin Beattie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5392-7915)
- Jeremy Slayter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1048-266X)
- Zainab Adamji (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9728-3790)
- Colleen O'Connell
- Jodi Warman-Chardon
- Maria Masnata
Institutions
- Dalhousie University (CA)
- Université de Sherbrooke (CA)
- University of Ottawa (CA)
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CA)
- Muscular Dystrophy Canada (CA)
- Ottawa Hospital (CA)
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (CA)
- Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean (CA)
- Institut Régional de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation (FR)
- Stan Cassidy Foundation (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases
- Published
- 2026-01-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/22143602261416298
- Primary Topic
- Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00