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Evaluating a Pragmatic Strength Alternative for Frailty Measurement and Assessing Its Predictive Capacity Against Established Frailty Instruments in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Frailty occurs prematurely in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and is associated with poor health outcomes. We compared the performance of four frailty instruments, including a pragmatic alternative measure using chair sit‐to‐stand (STS), and evaluated their abilities to predict poor health outcomes.
Kylie E. Riggles, Hannah F. Brubeck, Adrienne D. Tanus, Courtney N. Loecker, Punyasha Roul, Bryant R. England, Elizabeth R. Wahl, James S. Andrews, Namrata Singh, Joshua F. Baker, Patricia P. Katz, Dolores M. Shoback, Jose M. Garcia, Ariela R. Orkaby, Katherine D. Wysham   +14 more
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Gli effetti della scala mobile sull'inflazione e sulle politiche di stabilizzazione: un commento al modello Modigliani-Padoa-Schioppa (The effects of wage indexation on inflation and on stabilization policies: a comment on the Modigliani-Padoa Schioppa)

Moneta e Credito, 2014
In a recent article, F. Modigliani and T. Padoa-Schioppa argued that indexing at 100% with frequent wage adjustments rises the general rate of inflation associated with a given gap between the price level desired by businesses and that compatible with ...
G. VITALETTI
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Are Real Wages Rigid Downwards? [PDF]

This paper explores the existence of downward real wage rigidity (DRWR) in 19 OECD countries, over the period 1973–1999, using data for hourly nominal earnings at industry level.
Fredrik Wulfsberg, Steinar Holden
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Does Long‐Term Lower Extremity Strength Training in Adults With Knee Osteoarthritis and Varus Alignment Reduce Knee Joint Loading During Gait?

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We examined whether 18 months of strength training in individuals with knee varus alignment and medial tibiofemoral osteoarthritis (OA) reduced knee joint loads during walking compared to an attention control group. Methods This study was a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial that compared the effects of strength training to a ...
Stephen P. Messier, Matthew N. Vigliotti, Paige E. Rice, Brian Pietrosimone, Shannon L. Mihalko, Edward H. Ip, Richard F. Loeser, David J. Hunter, Ali Guermazi, Ryan Hill, Santiago Saldana, Kim L. Bennell, Paul DeVita   +12 more
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Copertura delle retribuzioni e inflazione a tasso variabile (Coverage of wages and inflation rate variable)

Moneta e Credito, 2014
In his latest work on indexing of wages L. Spaventa critically reviewed various contributions with the aim of both reiterating some of his previous conclusions and extending the analysis.
R. FILOSA, I. VISCO
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Formal and Informal Social Care in People With Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases: A Cross‐Sectional Multicenter Survey

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) are leading causes of physical disability, necessitating support with activities of daily living. This study describes social care received by patients with RMDs in two disparate regions of England: Salford (urban) and Norfolk (rural).
Mehreen Somro, Karen Durrant, William G. Dixon, John McBeth, Alex MacGregor, Max Yates, Jenny H. Humphreys   +6 more
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Cost of living, salaries, consumption and the situation of the Italian middle classes

PSL Quarterly Review, 2014
The article examines and compares the recent developments arising from the depreciation of the lira. The author calls attention to some disturbances of social importance caused by recent inflationary phenomena in Italy; more especially to the erosion of
G. TAGLIACARNE
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Are wages rigid over the business cycle? [PDF]

Search models of the labor market suggest that a significant determinant of job creation decisions by firms is the expected value of the initial and future real wages that firms have to pay to workers in newly formed employment relationships.
Marianna Kudlyak
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Integrating Patient‐Reported Quality Measures in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Development of the American College of Rheumatology Implementation Guide

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective To support high‐quality, patient‐centered care for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) developed evidence‐based measures incorporating clinical and patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs). Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR), we conducted semistructured interviews ...
Catherine Nasrallah, Cherish Wilson, Christine Hariz, Christie M. Bartels, Shanthini Kasturi, Wambui Machua, Amy Bennett, Kate Chiseri, Allison Plitman, Starla Hairston Blanks, April Jorge, Patti Katz, Jinoos Yazdany, Shivani Garg   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are “fair” wages quantitatively important for business cycle fluctuations in Bulgaria?

Review of Economic Perspectives, 2020
We introduce “fair” wages in a general-equilibrium model where worker’s effort is unobservable and investigate whether such a mechanism can quantitatively account for the degree of real wage rigidity in the Bulgarian labor markets, as documented in Lozev,
Vasilev Aleksandar
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