Using patient reported outcomes to measure low states of disease activity may be very useful in the establishment of comprehensive treatment targets in psoriatic arthritis.
Can Patient-Reported Measures Aid Assessment of Disease Activity in Inflammatory Eye Disease?
For patients, visible symptoms of uveitis correlate with perceptions of worse physical health, according to a recent study. Ophthalmologist Sunil Srivastava, MD, and rheumatologists Rula Hajj-Ali, Joshua Hedrick, MD, explain the relationship between patient reported outcomes measures and disease activity in inflammatory eye disease.
Study Compares Two Models of Care for Chronic Disease
New evidence demonstrates that the functional medicine model of care is associated with improvements in health-related quality of life.
Unique Tool Provides Validated Disease Activity Scores at the Point of Care
A new tool using a tablet and validated outcome measures has been initiated at Cleveland Clinic. It enables rheumatologists to obtain the information they need to make informed treatment decisions in real time and before they enter the patient’s room.
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