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Rheumatoid Arthritis

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Digital Health Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges in Rheumatology

Digital health technology offers enormous potential to improve rheumatology care but this potential has so far been largely unrealized.

Sep 24, 2020
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Development of a Canadian Core Clinical Dataset to Support High-quality Care for Canadian Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

The core elements in the Canadian Rheumatoid Arthritis Core Clinical Dataset were rated as important and feasible to collect by rheumatology care providers and people living with arthritis from across Canada.

Oct 13, 2017
Journal Article

Development of System-Level Performance Measures for Evaluation of Models of Care for Inflammatory Arthritis in Canada

This study aims to develop system-level performance measures for evaluating the care of patients with inflammatory arthritis (IA), including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

Jan 25, 2016
Journal Article

Development of Key Performance Indicators to Evaluate Centralized Intake for Patients with Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis

The aim of this study was to develop key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate centralized intake systems for patients with osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Nov 30, 2015
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Development of Cardiovascular Quality Indicators for Rheumatoid Arthritis: Results from an International Expert Panel Using a Novel Online Process

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have a high risk of premature cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Jul 24, 2015
Journal Article

Variation in the Spillover Effects of Illness on Parents, Spouses, and Children of the Chronically Ill

Given the broad scope of the spillover effects of illness, it is important to characterize the variability in these outcomes to identify relationship types in which secondary impacts of illness are particularly important to include in health economic evaluations.

Apr 1, 2014
Journal Article

Patients with Multiple Health Conditions Have Lower Health-Related Quality of Life

Patients with multi-morbid diabetes, arthritis, neurological, or long-term mental health problems have significantly lower health-related quality of life (HRQoL) than other people. The associations of physical health with HRQoL were stronger in the presence of long-term mental health problems.

Jan 1, 2014
Journal Article

The Minimally Important Difference for the Fatigue Visual Analog Scale in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Followed in an Academic Clinical Practice

Estimates the minimally important difference for a fatigue visual analog scale (VAS) using patient-reported anchors (fatigue, pain, and overall health). This information can aid in interpreting fatigue VAS in day-to-day care in clinical practice.

Dec 31, 2007
Journal Article

Assessment of American College of Rheumatology Quality Criteria for Rheumatoid Arthritis in a Pre-Quality Criteria Patient Cohort

To evaluate the ACR starter set of quality measures for RA in an actual patient cohort that preceded publication of the quality measures.

Dec 31, 2006
Journal Article

The Complexity of Care for Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Metrics for Better Understanding Chronic Disease Care

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) provide an important opportunity for understanding care of patients with a serious chronic condition.

Dec 31, 2006
Journal Article

Methods to Develop Arthritis and Osteoporosis Measures: A View from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)

The key challenge to the feasibility of arthritis performance measures is the lack of administrative data to identify the eligible population.

Dec 31, 2006
News Release

Arthritis Care for Older Patients Is Poor; Lack of Information on Medication Safety Is Biggest Shortfall

April 4, 2006 News Release: RAND Study Finds Arthritis Care for Older Patients Is Poor; Lack of Information on Medication Safety Is Biggest Shortfall.

Apr 4, 2006
Journal Article

Application of Explicit Process of Care Measurement to Rheumatoid Arthritis: Moving from Evidence to Practice

The authors conducted a prospective cohort study of rates of change in disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) and/or systemic corticosteroid drug or dose for 568 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) across 6,159 clinical encounters within 12 months to examine how changes in clinical specifications change adherence.

Dec 31, 2005
Journal Article

Revalidation of the Original Cedars-Sinai Health-Related Quality of Life in Rheumatoid Arthritis Questionnaire

Results support the validity and reliability of both the original CSHQ-RA and the 11-item CSHQ-RA SF when tested in representative patient population

Dec 31, 2005
Journal Article

Payback Arising from Research Funding: Evaluation of the Arthritis Research Campaign

There is a wide diversity of research payback. Short focused project grants seem to provide value for money.

Dec 31, 2004
Journal Article

Measuring Preference Weights for American College of Rheumatology Response Criteria for Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

To estimate weights for health states comprising ACR response and different levels of adverse events associated with rheumatoid arthritis treatments.

Dec 31, 2004
Journal Article

Using Orthotics to Improve Pain and Function Status in Children with Arthritis

This paper studied foot pain and treatment options for children with juvenile arthritis, in particular the use of custom-made orthotics.

Dec 31, 2004
Journal Article

Case Finding for Population-Based Studies of Rheumatoid Arthritis: Comparison of Patient Self-Reported ACR Criteria-Based Algorithms to Physician-Implicit Review for Diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Implications for health services research and quality improvement interventions pertinent to case finding for RA through self-report data.

Dec 31, 2003
Journal Article

Development and Evaluation of a Patient Self-Report Case-Finding Method for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Case-finding method represents a promising tool for identifying RA patients, with potential application in research and quality-assurance activities.

Dec 31, 2003
Journal Article

Effects of Omega-3 Fatty Acids on Lipids and Glycemic Control in Type II Diabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome and on Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Renal Disease, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, and Osteoporosis

The evidence for effects of omega-3 fatty acids on outcomes in the conditions assessed varies greatly. Omega-3 fatty acids appear to reduce serum triglycerides among type II diabetics, but have no effect on total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and LDL cholesterol.

Dec 31, 2003

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