Study protocol: A cross-sectional survey of clinicians to identify barriers to clinical practice guideline implementation in the assessment and treatment of persistent tic disorders

• Jaclyn M. Martindale ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jmartind@wakehealth.edu

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4919-8850

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• Harini Sarva,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Division of Neurodegenerative Diseases Weill Cornell Medicine, Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Institute, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Davide Martino,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary and Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• Donald L. Gilbert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

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• Christos Ganos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Tamara Pringsheim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• Kevin Black,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, Radiology, and Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6921-9567

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• Irene A. Malaty,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• all on behalf of the Movement Disorder Society Tic and Tourette Study Group

  ¶Membership of the Movement Disorder Society Tic and Tourette Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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