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NUTRIENTS
Volume 15, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nu15092048
Keywords
celiac disease; follow-up; gluten free diet; celiac centers; quality of life; digital platform; digitalized dietary assessment; nutritional education; eHealth
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For patients with celiac disease, a gluten-free diet is necessary to resolve symptoms and minimize long-term morbidity. Follow-up care should involve a multidisciplinary approach, improved access through telemedicine, and adherence to guidelines informed by evidence-based research. However, data is lacking on optimal clinic visit intervals and outcomes, as well as quality indicators and resource utilization.
For patients with celiac disease (CeD), a lifelong gluten-free diet is not a voluntary lifestyle choice-it is a necessity. The key end points in clinical follow-up are symptom resolution, the normalization of weight, prevention of overweight, seroconversion, and negation or minimization of increased long-term morbidity. For the latter, a surrogate endpoint is mucosal healing, which means the normalization of histology to Marsh 0-1. Ideally, celiac follow-up care includes a multidisciplinary approach, effective referral processes, improved access that leverages technological advances, and following guidelines with the identification of measurable quality indicators, ideally informed by evidence-based research. Face-to-face CeD care and telemedicine are considered the standards for this process, although published data are insufficient. Guidelines and statements on diagnosis are readily available. However, data are lacking on optimal clinic visit intervals and outcomes and quality indicators such as improvement of symptoms, function and quality of life, survival and disease control, and how to most effectively use healthcare resources. The results of future research should provide the basis for general recommendations for evidence-based standards of quality of care in CeD.
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