CONCLUSION
Medical practice has become highly specialized and though, with
subspecialization, physicians have become highly skilled in specific
areas. This is largely to the advantage of patients with disorders
limited to specific parts of the body system. However, patients such as
those with NF, who have multi-system disorders, may be caught between
the cracks, especially in Africa, where the cost of treatment is still
largely borne out-of-pocket. Therefore, the logical solution to
providing high quality healthcare to such patients is to provide
treatment through multi-disciplinary teams. A multidisciplinary team may
have to cut across traditional medical boundaries to involve other
professionals and in some-instances even non-medical social groups, to
ensure the delivery of holistic, patient-centered healthcare that is
affordable, sustainable and of a quality that assures good outcome and
promotes a reasonable quality of life.
Finally this study has the limitation of being a retrospective study
with the occurrence of missing data/ information . For the
instances of missing data, this was taken into account at the stage of
data analysis.