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Orphanet provides access to an Encyclopedia made up of informative texts including; articles for general public, guidelines (emergency, anesthesia and clinical practice), disease review articles (general review articles, clinical genetics review and diagnostic criteria), disability fact sheet, guidelines for genetic testing and summary information in different languages. Texts are either produced by Orphanet (summary information, emergency guidelines, disability fact sheets) or produced by other parties and selected for the quality according to standard procedures.
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These texts are not yet available in all of the 7 Orphanet languages or for all rare diseases.
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