A New Instrument to Measure High Value, Cost-Conscious Care Attitudes Among Healthcare Stakeholders: Development of the MHAQ [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2020 Background Residents have to learn to provide high value, cost-conscious care (HVCCC) to counter the trend of excessive healthcare costs. Their learning is impacted by individuals from different stakeholder groups within the workplace environment.
Aggie T G Paulus +2 more
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Comprehensive Relationship Between Disease Activity Indices, mTSS, and mHAQ and Physical Function Evaluation and QOL in Females With Rheumatoid Arthritis [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) causes significant physical disability. We comprehensively investigated the relationship between RA disease activity (Disease Activity Score 28-C-reactive protein [DAS28-CRP], Simplified Disease Activity Index [SDAI], and ...
Tetsuyuki Nagafusa, Motohiro Suzuki
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Evaluation of a mosquito home system for controlling Aedes aegypti [PDF]
Parasites & Vectors, 2021 Background Dengue is a significant public health issue that is caused by Aedes spp. mosquitoes. The current vector control methods are unable to effectively reduce Aedes populations and thus fail to decrease dengue transmission. Hence, there is an urgent
Ahmad Mohiddin Mohd Ngesom +10 more
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Rheumatology, 2022 Introduction There is a lack of data assessing disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis from Pakistan. We sought to determine the correlation between Disease Activity Score 28 (DAS28) and disease activity parameters and the modified Health ...
Noreen Nasir +4 more
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Discordance of global assessment between the patients and physicians predicts 9-year pain-related outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis patients [PDF]
Frontiers in Medicine, 2023 IntroductionPerspectives regarding the disease state often differ between patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and physicians. The aim of the present longitudinal cohort study was to investigate the impact of the discordance in global assessments ...
Kazuhiro Hayashi +11 more
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Turkish Journal of Rheumatology, 2010 Objective: To investigate the psychometric properties of the Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ-DI) and the modified HAQ (MHAQ) in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA).
Ayse Kucukdeveci +2 more
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Diagnosis delay in Egyptian rheumatoid-arthritis-patients: underlying factors and outcomes — retrospective observational study [PDF]
Romanian Journal of Rheumatology, 2023 Background. Early initiation of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) treatment leads to better outcomes and low disease activity. In spite of these, there is a significant delay between symptom onset and the initiation of therapy. Objective.
Sarah A. Sakr +3 more
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The Prevalence of Fibromyalgia in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and its Impact on Disease Activity, Functional Level, and Psychological Status [PDF]
International Journal of Medical Arts, 2022 Background: Rheumatoid arthritis [RA] is a type of progressive disease characterised by inflammation in the synovial tissues resulting in deformity and functional impairment.
Adel Azzam +3 more
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Reumatismo, 2020 Choosing between the different disease activity indices used for rheumatoid arthritis RA evaluation in clinical practice and research is often difficult.
K. El-Hadidi +3 more
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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2022 Background The Functional Index for Hand Osteoarthritis (FIHOA) is a simple tool to assess functional impairment for hand OA patients. The purpose of this study was to translate the FIHOA into the Thai language, and validate it in Thai hand OA patients ...
Sitthiphong Suwannaphisit +4 more
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