Use of clinical scores to guide therapeutic decisions in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in daily care

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 255-258

  Malysheva, Olga ^a   Bedrich, Anne ^a   Kuipers, Jens G ^b   Kleine, Henning ^c   Wolff, Björn ^c   Baerwald, Christoph G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b Rotes Kreuz Hospital Bremen Department for Internal Rheumatology ^*  (Germany)

^c ABBVIE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical scores; Daily practice; DAS28; Questionnaires; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DAS28; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS ASSESSMENT; GERMANY; HANOVER FUNCTION ABILITY QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEX RATIO; TREATMENT PLANNING; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HEALTH STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REMISSION INDUCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929941910     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: 1593098X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. SMOLEN JS, ALETAHA D, BIJLSMA JW et al.: Treating rheumatoid arthritis to target: recommendations of an international task force. Ann Rheum Dis 2010; 69: 631-7.
2. ANDERSON JK, ZIMMERMAN L, CAPLAN L, MICHAUD K: Measures of rheumatoid arthritis disease activity: Patient (PtGA) and Provider (PrGA) Global Assessment of Disease Activity, Disease Activity Score (DAS) and Disease Activity Score with 28-Joint Counts (DAS28), Simplified Disease Activity Index (SDAI), Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI), Patient Activity Score (PAS) and Patient Activity Score-II (PASII), Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data (RAPID), Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Index (RADAI) and Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Index-5 (RADAI-5), Chronic Arthritis Systemic Index (CASI), Patient-Based Disease Activity Score With ESR (PDAS1) and Patient-Based Disease Activity Score without ESR (PDAS2), and Mean Overall Index for Rheumatoid Arthritis (MOI-RA).Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 2011; 63 (Suppl. 11): S14-36.
3. KOHLMANN T, RASPE H: Hannover Functional Questionnaire in ambulatory diagnosis of functional disability caused by backache. Rehabilitation (Stuttg) 1996; 35: I-VIII.
4. JENKINSON C, LAYTE R: Development and testing of the UK SF-12 (short form health survey). J Health Serv Res Policy 1997; 2: 14-8.
5. BRUCE B, FRIES JF: The Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire: Dimensions and Practical Applications. Health Qual Life Outcomes 2003; 1: 20.
6. ALBRECHT K, KRüGER K, WOLLENHAUPT J et al.: German guidelines for the sequential medical treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with traditional and biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs. Rheumatol Int 2014; 34: 1-9.
7. KOEVOETS R, KLARENBEEK NB, GüLER-YüKSEL M et al.: Simplified versions of the original disease activity score: validation in the BeSt trial. Ann Rheum Dis 2011; 70: 1471-4.
8. OHRNDORF S, FISCHER IU, KELLNER H et al.: Reliability of the novel 7-joint ultrasound score: results from an inter-and intraobserver study performed by rheumatologists. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 2012; 64: 1238-43.
9. SOKKA T: Radiographic scoring in rheumatoid arthritis: a short introduction to the methods. Bull NYU Hosp Jt Dis 2008; 66: 166-8.
10. RAU R, WASSENBERG S, HERBORN G, STUCKI G, GEBLER A: A new method of scoring radiographic change in rheumatoid arthritis. J Rheumatol 1998; 25: 2094-07.
11. STEINBROCKER O, TRAEGER CH, BATTERMAN RC: Therapeutic criteria in rheumatoid arthritis. JAMA 1949; 140: 659-62.
12. JANSSENS X, DECUMAN S, De KEYSER F; Brada I study group: Construction and psychometric properties of the Belgian Rheumatoid Arthritis Disability Assessment (BRADA) questionnaire: a new tool for the evaluation of activity limitations in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Clin Exp Rheumatol 2013; 31: 596-605.
13. NEMOTO T, OGASAWARA M, MATSUKI Y et al.: Can routine clinical measures predict ultrasound-determined synovitis and remission in rheumatoid arthritis patients?. Clin Exp Rheumatol 2014; 32: 54-60.
14. LANDEWé RBM, BOERS M, VERHOEVEN AC et al.: COBRA Combination therapy in patients withearly rheumatoid arthritis: long-term structural benefits of a brief intervention. Arthritis Rheum 2002; 46: 347-56.
15. GOEKOOP-RUITERMAN YPM, DE VRIES-BOUWSTRA JK, ALLAART CF et al.: Clinical and radiographic outcomes of four different treatment strategies in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (the BeSt Study): a randomized, controlled trial. Arthritis Rheum 2005; 52: 3381-90.
16. VERSTAPPEN SMM, JACOBS JWG, van der VEEN MJ: Intensive treatment with methotrexate in early rheumatoid arthritis: aiming for remission. Computer Assisted Management in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis (CAMERA, an open-label strategy trial). Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 1443-9.
17. PYNE L, BYKERK VP, BOIRE G et al.: Increasing treatment in early rheumatoid arthritis is not determined by the disease activity score but by physician global assessment: results from the CATCH study. J Rheumatol 2012; 39: 2081-7.