Improving Appropriate Access to Care With Central Referral and Triage in Rheumatology.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify and describe back pain trajectory groups and to compare indicators of health status, medication, and health care use in these groups. METHODS:A representative sample (n = 12,782) of the Canadian population was followed-up from 1994/1995 to 2010/2011. Participants were interviewed biannually and p...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Canizares M,Rampersaud YR,Badley EM

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the response of tocilizumab (TCZ) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) by ultrasonographic evaluation of changes in the wrist and hand, and to determine whether such assessments during early TCZ treatment predict later clinical outcome. METHODS:Thirty-two RA patients about to receive TCZ...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Kume K,Amano K,Yamada S,Hatta K,Kuwaba N,Ohta H

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the secular trend of hip fracture incidence in Belgium between 2000 and 2007 and the concomitant change in the prescriptions of antiosteoporosis medications. METHODS:The incidence of hip fractures and the number of prescriptions were determined using national databases. A logistic regression inclu...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Hiligsmann M,Bruyère O,Roberfroid D,Dubois C,Parmentier Y,Carton J,Detilleux J,Gillet P,Reginster JY

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To screen for a high risk of preeclampsia in women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). METHODS:A total of 513 antenatal care records of pregnant patients with SLE were obtained, and the data were randomly assigned to either a development set (n = 342) or a validation set (n = 171). Preeclampsia predicto...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Jiang M,Wang Y,Fu Q,Lin S,Wu J,Di W

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We read with great interest the editorial on foot osteoarthritis (OA) by Golightly and Gates (1). Foot OA is prevalent but neglected compared with other commonly affected sites such as the knee and hand (2), hence such a high-profile statement of need for foot OA is long overdue. ...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Roddy E,Menz HB,Marshall M,Munteanu S,Thomas MJ,Peat G

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess experimental pain sensitivity and compare the inflammatory response to pain in 26 osteoarthritis (OA) patients and 33 age- and sex-matched controls from the general population in order to examine the nature of the association between pain and inflammation in OA. METHODS:The participants underwent p...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Lee YC,Lu B,Bathon JM,Haythornthwaite JA,Smith MT,Page GG,Edwards RR

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the external validity of the Lupus Impact Tracker (LIT), a systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)-specific, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) tool in a population-based cohort of patients with SLE in Atlanta, Georgia. We modeled the association of LIT scores with patient-reported measures of SLE a...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Brandt JE,Drenkard C,Kan H,Bao G,Dunlop-Thomas C,Pobiner B,Chang DJ,Jolly M,Lim SS

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop recommendations for the screening, monitoring, and treatment of uveitis in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). METHODS:Pediatric rheumatologists, ophthalmologists with expertise in uveitis, patient representatives, and methodologists generated key clinical questions to be addressed ...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Angeles-Han ST,Ringold S,Beukelman T,Lovell D,Cuello CA,Becker ML,Colbert RA,Feldman BM,Holland GN,Ferguson PJ,Gewanter H,Guzman J,Horonjeff J,Nigrovic PA,Ombrello MJ,Passo MH,Stoll ML,Rabinovich CE,Sen HN,Schneider

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine cross-sectionally whether intraabdominal fat area (IAFA), i.e., visceral fat, and liver fat assessed by computed tomography (CT) are independently associated with hyperuricemia. METHODS:Subjects were 801 Japanese men not taking antidiabetic, antihypertensive, or urate-lowering medications, without...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Yamada A,Sato KK,Kinuhata S,Uehara S,Endo G,Hikita Y,Fujimoto WY,Boyko EJ,Hayashi T

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the association between exposure to oral contraceptives (OCs) and clinical outcomes in an early arthritis cohort. METHODS:Female patients with early inflammatory arthritis, ages 18-60 years, who were enrolled in an early arthritis cohort and had no exposure to hormone replacement were studied (n ...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Albrecht K,Callhoff J,Buttgereit F,Straub RH,Westhoff G,Zink A

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease that can cause disfiguring changes in appearance. This study examined the structural validity, internal consistency reliability, convergent validity, and measurement equivalence of the Social Appearance Anxiety Scale (SAAS) across SSc disease subtypes. METHOD...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Mills SD,Kwakkenbos L,Carrier ME,Gholizadeh S,Fox RS,Jewett LR,Gottesman K,Roesch SC,Thombs BD,Malcarne VL,Scleroderma Patient-centered Intervention Network Investigators.

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish the impact of uveitis on the quality of life (QoL) in adult patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). METHODS:Adult patients with a history of JIA, both with (n = 31) or without (n = 51) chronic anterior uveitis, were included. Their scores on 3 validated QoL questionnaires (National Ey...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Haasnoot AJW,Sint Jago NFM,Tekstra J,de Boer JH

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Health information technology (HIT) holds promise in increasing access to rheumatologists by improving the quality and efficiency of referrals, but few studies have examined its use for this purpose. We evaluated the use and impact of a novel electronic referral (eReferral) system in rheumatology in a safety-...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Scheibe MM,Imboden JB,Schmajuk G,Margaretten M,Graf JD,Chen AH,Yelin EH,Yazdany J

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Knowledge about systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) outcomes among US Asians is lacking. We examined SLE disease activity, severity, and damage among Asians of primarily Chinese and Filipino descent in a multiethnic cohort. METHODS:California Lupus Epidemiology Study (CLUES, n=328) data were analyzed. Data we...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： DeQuattro K,Trupin L,Murphy LB,Rush S,Criswell LA,Lanata CM,Dall'Era M,Katz P,Yazdany J

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether patients affected by 1 of the 3 subsets of early systemic sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma), i.e., subset I, Raynaud's phenomenon with SSc marker autoantibodies and typical capillaroscopic findings; subset II, autoantibody positive only; and subset III, capillaroscopy positive only and not s...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Valentini G,Marcoccia A,Cuomo G,Vettori S,Iudici M,Bondanini F,Santoriello C,Ciani A,Cozzolino D,De Matteis GM,Cappabianca S,Vitelli F,Spanò A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The Veterans Affairs (VA) Rheumatoid Arthritis (VARA) registry and the VA Pharmacy Benefits Management database were linked to determine the association of methotrexate (MTX) adherence with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity. METHODS:For each patient, the medication possession ratio (MPR) was calcula...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Cannon GW,Mikuls TR,Hayden CL,Ying J,Curtis JR,Reimold AM,Caplan L,Kerr GS,Richards JS,Johnson DS,Sauer BC

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate pain, fatigue, and psychological functioning of childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients and examine how these factors impact health-related quality of life (HRQOL). METHODS:At a tertiary rheumatology clinic, 60 childhood-onset SLE patients completed the following: a visual ana...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Jones JT,Cunningham N,Kashikar-Zuck S,Brunner HI

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) experience functional impairment due to joint manifestations of the disease. The aim of our present study was to assess health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and its predictors in a group of children and adolescents with JIA. METHODS:The study sample include...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Haverman L,Grootenhuis MA,van den Berg JM,van Veenendaal M,Dolman KM,Swart JF,Kuijpers TW,van Rossum MA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis (CADM) is a subset of dermatomyositis (DM) presenting with the characteristic rash of DM without objective muscle weakness. Asian studies report that anti-melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 (anti-MDA-5) autoantibody in CADM is associated with interstitial lung dis...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Moghadam-Kia S,Oddis CV,Sato S,Kuwana M,Aggarwal R

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Large database research in axial spondyloarthritis (SpA) is limited by a lack of methods for identifying most types of axial SpA. Our objective was to develop methods for identifying axial SpA concepts in the free text of documents from electronic medical records. METHODS:Veterans with documents in the natio...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Walsh JA,Shao Y,Leng J,He T,Teng CC,Redd D,Treitler Zeng Q,Burningham Z,Clegg DO,Sauer BC

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine patient willingness and a possible shift in willingness for surgery and to investigate factors associated with this shift, following participation in the digital nonsurgical osteoarthritis (OA) treatment program Joint Academy. METHODS:A total of 458 individuals (mean ± SD age 62 ± 5.6 years, 67% w...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Cronström A,Nero H,Dahlberg LE

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) has been associated with improved survival among SLE patients from tertiary referral centers. We aimed to determine the potential impact of HCQ use on the risk of mortality among SLE patients in the general population. METHODS:We conducted a nested case-control study within an incide...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Jorge A,McCormick N,Lu N,Zheng Y,Esdaile J,De Vera M,Choi H,Avina-Zubieta JA

更新日期：2020-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop and internally validate risk models and a clinical risk score tool to predict incident radiographic knee osteoarthritis (RKOA) in middle-aged women. METHODS:We analyzed 649 women in the Chingford 1,000 Women study. The outcome was incident RKOA, defined as Kellgren/Lawrence grade 0-1 at baseline a...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Garriga C,Sánchez-Santos MT,Judge A,Hart D,Spector T,Cooper C,Arden NK

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize the cutaneous and systemic clinical phenotype of dermatomyositis patients with antinuclear matrix protein 2 (anti-NXP-2) antibodies. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis of 178 dermatomyositis patients seen at the Stanford University Clinic. An electronic chart review employin...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Rogers A,Chung L,Li S,Casciola-Rosen L,Fiorentino DF

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish priority key messages for patients with osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS:A Delphi survey and priority pairwise ranking activity was conducted. Participants included 51 OA experts from 13 countries and 9 patients (consumers) living with hip and/or knee OA. During 3 Delphi rounds, the panel of experts...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： French SD,Bennell KL,Nicolson PJ,Hodges PW,Dobson FL,Hinman RS

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the differential presentation(s) of psychological and health-related outcomes in young adults with juvenile-onset fibromyalgia (FM) with and without a history of trauma, compared to healthy controls. METHODS:In total, 110 participants (86 with juvenile-onset FM and 24 healthy controls, with a mean...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Nelson S,Cunningham N,Peugh J,Jagpal A,Arnold LM,Lynch-Jordan A,Kashikar-Zuck S

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study evaluated the effect of moderate weight loss on the incidence of knee osteoarthritis (OA) in middle-aged overweight and obese women, without clinical and radiologic knee OA at baseline. METHODS:A total of 353 women (87%) with followup data available were selected from the Prevention of Knee Osteoa...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Runhaar J,de Vos BC,van Middelkoop M,Vroegindeweij D,Oei EH,Bierma-Zeinstra SM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the validity and reliability of screening instruments for depression and anxiety in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:Participants with RA completed the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-2 or PHQ-9), the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System depression short form 8a and anxiety sh...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Hitchon CA,Zhang L,Peschken CA,Lix LM,Graff LA,Fisk JD,Patten SB,Bolton J,Sareen J,El-Gabalawy R,Marriott J,Bernstein CN,Marrie RA

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine factors that are predictive of incident, recurrent, or resolved shoulder pain in a community-based sample from the general population. METHODS:This study used data from the North West Adelaide Health Study, a cohort study located in the northwestern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. Data wer...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Gill TK,Shanahan EM,Taylor AW,Buchbinder R,Hill CL

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A recent study conducted by our clinical group demonstrated that low disease activity (LDA), defined as a clinical Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index 2000 (SLEDAI-2K) score ≤2, maintained for 12 months, confers the same risk for damage accrual as complete remission after 2 years. The aim of t...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Tselios K,Gladman DD,Touma Z,Su J,Anderson N,Urowitz MB

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00