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Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of Sickness Impact Profile‐30 (SIP‐30) in Community‐Dwelling Older Adults [PDF]

Journal of Aging Research, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Purpose: Accurate measurement tools are essential for evaluating the health‐related quality of life in older adults. We aimed to translate and evaluate the psychometric properties of the Sickness Impact Profile‐30 (SIP‐30) in community‐dwelling older adults. Materials and Methods: One hundred and fifty older adults participated in this study.
Sajad Siavash, Amin Ghaffari, Ghorban Taghizadeh, Laleh Lajevardi, Akram Azad, Bruno Peixoto   +5 more
wiley   +2 more sources

Evaluating a targeted educational intervention to promote high-value, cost-conscious care among medical students [PDF]

Medical Education Online
Rising healthcare costs in the United States, with estimates suggesting up to 25% of spending is wasteful, have created an urgent need for cost-conscious, value-based care (VBC). VBC aims to improve patient outcomes relative to costs, yet its integration
Poojita Chinmay, Mohammed Khan, Zhidong Wang, Nivan Lakshman, Nicole Rockich-Winston   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Beyond the visual analog scale: results from a multimodal pain assessment pilot study in first‐degree relatives of patients with rheumatoid arthritis [PDF]

ACR Open Rheumatol, 2022
ACR Open Rheumatology, Volume 4, Issue 12, Page 1027-1029, December 2022.
Cairistin McDougall, Dana Wiens, Irene Smolik, Yvonne C. Lee, Hani S. El‐Gabalawy, Liam J. O'Neil   +5 more
wiley   +2 more sources

Disease Activity Assessment Frequency in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Retrospective Observational Study of the Medical Support System for Rheumatoid Arthritis System Implementation [PDF]

JMIR Formative Research
BackgroundRheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a global health concern with increasing prevalence. Despite recommendations for regular disease activity assessments, their implementation in routine clinical practice remains challenging. The Medical Support System
Mari Yamamoto, Yuki Kataoka, Yasushi Tsujimoto, Fumika Nagase, Keita Iwasaki, Yuuki Ito, Hiroki Ikai, Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Waka Yokoyama-Kokuryo, Naoho Takizawa, Yoshiro Fujita   +10 more
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Disease activity correlates and functionality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis – real-world experience from a South Asian country [PDF]

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, Hafsa Majid, Ayesha Habib Khan, Safia Awan, Mohammed Mehmood Riaz   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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, Kenji Miki, Kenji Miki, Kenji Miki, Kenrin Shi, Masao Yukioka, Masao Yukioka, Takehiro Hirayama, Kohei Tsujimoto, Takao Takeuchi, Yasuhisa Hayaishi, Masahiro Hayaishi   +11 more
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Evaluation of Tele-rheumatology during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Asian Population: A Pilot Study

International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications, 2021
Objective. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune condition associated with a potential for deformities. It is one of the common conditions to seek health care.
Amit Sandhu, Amit Agarwal, Paramvir Kaur, Meenakshi Sharma, Harnoor Sra, Manvi Singh, Nishant Jaiswal, Anil Chauhan, Anju Gupta, Meenu Singh   +9 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Comparison of the inhibitory effect of tocilizumab and etanercept on the progression of joint erosion in rheumatoid arthritis treatment [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2022
We compared the efficacy of tocilizumab and etanercept in inhibiting radiographic progression of joint destruction in rheumatoid arthritis. Overall, 187 patients treated with etanercept or tocilizumab were selected.
Shinya Hayashi, Tsukasa Matsubara, Toshihisa Maeda, Koji Fukuda, Keiko Funahashi, Marowa Hashimoto, Ken Tsumiyama, Tomoyuki Kamenaga, Yoshinori Takashima, Tomoyuki Matsumoto, Shotaro Tachibana, Ryosuke Kuroda   +11 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Demographic, Clinical Profile of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients and Their Association with Disease Severity in Ghana [PDF]

International Journal of Rheumatology, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.
Background. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is one of the frequent chronic, systemic, inflammatory autoimmune disorders with an estimated global prevalence of 1%. RA leads to joint destruction and disability if left untreated. Ghana has seen very few studies on RA, and little is known about the disease’s severity and related variables.
Tonnies Abeku Buckman, Samuel Asamoah Sakyi, Kwame Yeboah-Mensah, Maxwell Hubert Antwi, Isaac Darban, Lawrence Owusu-Brenya, Joseph Yorke, Andy Opoku Boateng, Ebenezer Senu, Albert Dompreh, Akwasi Minnah Addei, Richard Boateng, Ortis Yankey, Samuel Tandoh, Rishi Pal   +14 more
wiley   +2 more sources

Patterns of comorbidities differentially affect long-term functional evolution and disease activity in patients with ‘difficult to treat’ rheumatoid arthritis [PDF]

RMD Open
Background Characterisation of the long-term outcome of patients with ‘difficult to treat’ (D2T) rheumatoid arthritis and factors contributing to its evolution are unknown.
Prodromos Sidiropoulos, George Bertsias, Argyro Repa, Eleni Kalogiannaki, Antonios Bertsias, Nestor Avgoustidis, Sofia Pitsigavdaki, Irini D Flouri   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources