Improving cooperation between researchers and patients

At this year's EU RLS Study Group (EURLSSG) Annual Meeting, EARLS member Sören Berg (of RLS Förbundet) spoke on developed cooperation between researchers and patients, a mutual challenge, with a focus on three wishes.

  1. The first wish of patients is to increase the impact of existing knowledge, which should also be incorporated into a pan-European RLS guideline.

  2. The second wish is to increase the usefulness of existing knowledge and to provide starting points for new research. A "traffic light" assessment of treatments that have been discussed but not finally evaluated could be helpful.

  3. And, last but not least, there is a wish for more research on RLS in children.