abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the short-term and long-term impact of a centralized system for the intake and triage of rheumatology referrals on access to care and referral quality. METHODS:An innovative central referral process, the Central Referral and Triage in Rheumatology (CReATe Rheum) program, was implemented in 2006, ...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Hazlewood GS,Barr SG,Lopatina E,Marshall DA,Lupton TL,Fritzler MJ,Mosher DP,Steber WA,Martin L

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore patients' knowledge and beliefs about osteoarthritis (OA) and OA risk following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, to explore the extent to which information about these risks is provided by health professionals, and to examine associations among participant characteristics, knowledge, and ri...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Bennell KL,van Ginckel A,Kean CO,Nelligan RK,French SD,Stokes M,Pietrosimone B,Blackburn T,Batt M,Hunter DJ,Spiers L,Hinman RS

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Married persons have, on average, better mental health than nonmarried persons. Among married persons, marital satisfaction is associated with better mental health. Studies on mental health in married and nonmarried persons that consider marital satisfaction have categorized patients as satisfied versus unsat...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Levis B,Rice DB,Kwakkenbos L,Steele RJ,Hagedoorn M,Hudson M,Baron M,Thombs BD,Canadian Scleroderma Research Group.

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the presence of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) osteoarthritis (OA) features in the patellofemoral or tibiofemoral joint (i.e., bone marrow lesions, cartilage lesions, and osteophytes) and/or functional impairments, 1 year following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR), can p...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Culvenor AG,Collins NJ,Guermazi A,Cook JL,Vicenzino B,Whitehead TS,Morris HG,Crossley KM

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Disease activity, organ damage, and treatment burden are often substantial in children and adolescents with systemic lupus erythematous (SLE), and the complex interplay among the developing child, parents, and peers makes effective management difficult. We aimed to describe the experiences and perspectives of...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Tunnicliffe DJ,Singh-Grewal D,Chaitow J,Mackie F,Manolios N,Lin MW,O'neill SG,Ralph AF,Craig JC,Tong A

更新日期：2016-06-01 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:To assess the efficacy, tolerability, and safety of cannabinoids (phyto- and syntheto-) in the management of rheumatic diseases. METHODS:Multiple databases, including Medline, Embase, and CENTRAL, were searched. Randomized controlled trials with outcomes of pain, sleep, quality of life, tolerability (dropout...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Fitzcharles MA,Ste-Marie PA,Häuser W,Clauw DJ,Jamal S,Karsh J,Landry T,Leclercq S,Mcdougall JJ,Shir Y,Shojania K,Walsh Z

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether a 12-week physical therapist-delivered combined pain coping skills training (PCST) and exercise (PCST/exercise) is more efficacious and cost effective than either treatment alone for knee osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS:This was an assessor-blinded, 3-arm randomized controlled trial in 22...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Bennell KL,Ahamed Y,Jull G,Bryant C,Hunt MA,Forbes AB,Kasza J,Akram M,Metcalf B,Harris A,Egerton T,Kenardy JA,Nicholas MK,Keefe FJ

更新日期：2016-05-01 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 understand the impact of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) on work disability (WD) over 12 years compared with the general population, and explore factors predicting adverse work outcome, defined as new partial WD or reduction in working hours. METHODS:Source of data was the Outcome Assessments in Ankylosing Sp...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Castillo-Ortiz JD,Ramiro S,Landewé R,van der Heijde D,Dougados M,van den Bosch F,Boonen A

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a condition commonly associated with increased pain, disability, and functional limitations. Given the poor correspondence between radiographic evidence and clinical pain, central sensitization has been implicated as a potential mechanism underlying pain facilitation in...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Bartley EJ,King CD,Sibille KT,Cruz-Almeida Y,Riley JL 3rd,Glover TL,Goodin BR,Sotolongo AS,Herbert MS,Bulls HW,Staud R,Fessler BJ,Redden DT,Bradley LA,Fillingim RB

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Systemic lupus erythematosus patients are frequently evaluated for chest pain and may have multiple pulmonary embolism (PE) computed tomography (CT) scans. This study was undertaken to determine the incidence of pulmonary embolism in the University of Michigan Lupus Cohort patients who have undergone PE CT sc...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Kado R,Siegwald E,Lewis E,Goodsitt MM,Christodoulou E,Kazerooni E,McCune WJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether calcinosis and acro-osteolysis are related to specific nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC) features in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma). METHODS:NVC and bilateral hand radiographs were systematically performed in 155 consecutively recruited patients with SSc during a 24...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Morardet L,Avouac J,Sammour M,Baron M,Kahan A,Feydy A,Allanore Y

更新日期：2016-03-01 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:To assess the long-term outcome in eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Churg-Strauss) (EGPA). METHODS:A total of 101 patients fulfilling the American College of Rheumatology criteria for EGPA were included between 1990 and 2011. Clinical features, antineutrophil cytoplasm autoantibodies (ANCAs), a...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Durel CA,Berthiller J,Caboni S,Jayne D,Ninet J,Hot A

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Prior investigations demonstrated that autoantibodies recognizing cytosolic 5'-nucleotidase 1A (NT5C1A) are found in 33-76% of patients with inclusion body myositis (IBM) but are observed only rarely in patients with polymyositis (PM). Thus, anti-NT5C1A may help distinguish IBM from PM. Although 4-21% of pati...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Lloyd TE,Christopher-Stine L,Pinal-Fernandez I,Tiniakou E,Petri M,Baer A,Danoff SK,Pak K,Casciola-Rosen LA,Mammen AL

更新日期：2016-01-01 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:To determine the prevalence of severe fatigue and fatigue-related limitations among adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and other pediatric rheumatic diseases (PRDs). In addition, we assessed the effect of disease activity and pain on the severity of fatigue. METHODS:This cross-sectional stu...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Nijhof LN,van de Putte EM,Wulffraat NM,Nijhof SL

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare but serious complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Chronic hypoxia is known to cause PAH resulting from pulmonary vascular remodeling. We investigated the association between anemic hypoxia and PAH in SLE patients. METHODS:Systolic pulmonary artery...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Kim KJ,Baek IW,Yoon CH,Kim WU,Cho CS

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Osteoarthritis (OA), a chronic degenerative joint disorder, is characterized by joint pain. Emerging research demonstrates that a significant number of patients evidence central sensitization (CS), a hyperexcitability in nociceptive pathways, which is known to amplify and maintain clinical pain. The clinical ...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Campbell CM,Buenaver LF,Finan P,Bounds SC,Redding M,McCauley L,Robinson M,Edwards RR,Smith MT

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Management of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is complex and variability in practices exists. Guidelines have been developed to help improve the management of SLE patients, but there has been no formal evaluation of these guidelines. This study aims to compare the scope, quality, and consistency of clinica...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Tunnicliffe DJ,Singh-Grewal D,Kim S,Craig JC,Tong A

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine work absenteeism, job disruptions, and perceived productivity loss and factors associated with each outcome in young adults living with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and juvenile arthritis (JA). METHODS:One hundred forty-three young adults, ages 18-30 years with SLE (54.5%) and JA (45.5%), co...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Jetha A,Badley E,Beaton D,Fortin PR,Shiff NJ,Gignac MAM

更新日期：2015-09-01 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:To determine if baseline 3-dimensional (3-D) biomechanical gait patterns differed between those patients with moderate knee osteoarthritis (OA) who progressed to total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and those that did not, and whether these differences had predictive value. METHODS:Fifty-four patients with knee OA ...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Hatfield GL,Stanish WD,Hubley-Kozey CL

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The role of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is poorly understood. We examined the prevalence of CVD risk factors at initial onset of PsA and compared the observed incidence of CVD events with that predicted by the Framingham Risk Score (FRS) to determine its applicabilit...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Ernste FC,Sánchez-Menéndez M,Wilton KM,Crowson CS,Matteson EL,Maradit Kremers H

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association of socioeconomic status (SES) and delays in disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) treatment with clinical measures in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. METHODS:RA patients were recruited from rheumatology practices. We assessed SES based on education, occupation, and incom...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Molina E,Del Rincon I,Restrepo JF,Battafarano DF,Escalante A

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify clinical and serologic correlates of cutaneous ulcers in dermatomyositis (DM). METHODS:We retrospectively examined a cohort of 152 DM patients. We compared the features of patients with ulcers to those without ulcers using chi-square or Fisher's exact tests and used univariate and multivariate lo...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Narang NS,Casciola-Rosen L,Li S,Chung L,Fiorentino DF

更新日期：2015-05-01 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 determine the occurrence of traditional cardiovascular (CV) risk factors and coronary artery calcification (CAC) in adults with polymyositis (PM) or dermatomyositis (DM) compared to healthy controls and to assess the association between CV risk factors, PM/DM, and CAC score. METHODS:Traditional CV risk fa...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Diederichsen LP,Diederichsen AC,Simonsen JA,Junker P,Søndergaard K,Lundberg IE,Tvede N,Gerke O,Christensen AF,Dreyer L,Petersen H,Ejstrup L,Kay SD,Jacobsen S

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Few data are available regarding the rates of serious adverse events (SAEs) and important medical events (IMEs) outside of product-based registries and clinical trials for juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). The Enhanced Drug Safety Surveillance Project (EDSSP) was developed to pilot a novel system to collec...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Ringold S,Hendrickson A,Abramson L,Beukelman T,Blier PR,Bohnsack J,Chalom EC,Gewanter HL,Gottlieb B,Hollister R,Hsu J,Hudgins A,Ilowite NT,Klein-Gitelman M,Lindsley C,Lopez Benitez JM,Lovell DJ,Mason T,Milojevic D,M

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effects of valgus knee bracing on pain and function, and compliance and complications, in patients with medial knee osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS:A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials that compared changes in patient-reported pain and/or function in patients with medial knee OA was p...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Moyer RF,Birmingham TB,Bryant DM,Giffin JR,Marriott KA,Leitch KM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The goal of this study was to determine the sensitivity of the new 2013 classification criteria for systemic sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma) in an independent cohort of SSc subjects and to assess the contribution of individual items of the criteria to the overall sensitivity. METHODS:SSc subjects from the Canad...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Alhajeri H,Hudson M,Fritzler M,Pope J,Tatibouet S,Markland J,Robinson D,Jones N,Khalidi N,Docherty P,Kaminska E,Masetto A,Sutton E,Mathieu JP,Ligier S,Grodzicky T,LeClercq S,Thorne C,Gyger G,Smith D,Fortin PR,La

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Despite the high prevalence of depression among vulnerable Hispanics with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), many do not disclose it or seek treatment. This study explored patient perceptions of depression, its association with their primary disease, barriers to disclosure, reasons for low utilization of mental healt...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Withers M,Moran R,Nicassio P,Weisman MH,Karpouzas GA

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Prior studies have established disparities by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) in the kind, quantity, and technical quality of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) care and outcomes. In this study we evaluate whether disparities exist in assessments of interactions with health care providers and he...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Yelin E,Yazdany J,Tonner C,Trupin L,Criswell LA,Katz P,Schmajuk G

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and delay to a pediatric rheumatology clinic, disease severity, and illness perception in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis in England. METHODS:Using the Index of Multiple Deprivation, 923 consecutive children from the Childhood Arthriti...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Verstappen SM,Cobb J,Foster HE,Fu B,Baildam E,Wedderburn LR,Davidson JE,Ioannou J,Chieng A,Hyrich KL,Thomson W

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the extent and determinants of discordance in scoring between patient global assessment (PtGA) and physician global assessment (PhGA) in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA). METHODS:A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis of data was conducted in patients attending a large PsA clinic. The d...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Eder L,Thavaneswaran A,Chandran V,Cook R,Gladman DD

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Adherence to physical activity at ≥150 minutes/week has proven to offer disease management and health-promoting benefits among adults with arthritis. While highly active people seem undaunted by arthritis pain and are differentiated from the moderately active by adherence-related psychological factors, knowle...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Gyurcsik NC,Cary MA,Sessford JD,Flora PK,Brawley LR

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We aimed to determine if there were sex differences in lean body mass (LBM) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) when compared with sex- and race-specific National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) reference data, and to investigate the impact of sex differences in risk factors for LBM de...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Baker JF,Long J,Ibrahim S,Leonard MB,Katz P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Hallux valgus (HV) has been linked to functional disability and increased risk of falls, but mechanisms underpinning functional disability are unclear. This study investigated functional performance, muscle strength, and plantar pressures in adults with mild, moderate, and severe HV compared to controls, whil...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Hurn SE,Vicenzino B,Smith MD

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Anti-citrullinated peptide antibody (ACPA) and rheumatoid factor (RF) are markers to rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Smoking and shared epitope (SE) in HLA-DRB1 are associated with the production of these autoantibodies in RA. Detailed distribution and characterization of ACPA and RF in the general population have...

journal_title：Arthritis care & research

authors： Terao C,Ohmura K,Ikari K,Kawaguchi T,Takahashi M,Setoh K,Nakayama T,Kosugi S,Sekine A,Tabara Y,Taniguchi A,Momohara S,Yamanaka H,Yamada R,Matsuda F,Mimori T,Nagahama Study Group.

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00