Overview
The Cincinnati Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome (RTS) Program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center offers ongoing consultation and information to individuals with RTS and their caregivers worldwide. The program welcomes both in-person clinical evaluations, physician consultations and referrals either electronically and / or by mail utilizing: personal records, a specific series of photographs and X-ray reports.
The goals of the Cincinnati RTS Program are to:
- Confirm the diagnosis
- Create "best-practice" treament strategies
- Facilitate high quality research related to the syndrome
- Conduct educational outreach
The program has developed research tools that capture standardized information from both the individual and his / her primary caregiver on over 150 variables. That information is maintained for all confirmed cases within a computerized database that affords tremendous research opportunities to further the understanding of the syndrome and its manifestations across the lifespan.
The Cincinnati RTS Program functions in cooperation with the national RTS-USA Parent Support Group and a number of similar international support groups in Canada, Netherlands, Brazil, Argentina and the United Kingdom.
The Cincinnati RTS Program, in cooperation with the various divisions at Cincinnati Children's, and specifically the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, hosts conferences and training experiences.
