Alison J. Partridge

TL;DR: In patients with lower preoperative physical function, function and pain were not improved postoperatively to the level achieved by those with higher preoperative function.

TL;DR: The goal of treatment is to arrest the disease and to achieve remission, and patients may still benefit from pharmacologic, nonpharmacologic, and if necessary, surgical interventions.

TL;DR: The recommendations summarized in Table 1 are for basic monitoring in patients with uncomplicated RA, and additional monitoring may be appropriate for patients with comorbid disease, concurrent medication, or other risk factors.

TL;DR: Disease activity and health status were most strongly associated with potentially modifiable psychosocial factors such as self-efficacy for disease management, and Cumulative organ damage was most highly associated with clinical factorssuch as age and duration of disease.

TL;DR: The goal of this work was to develop an economical way of tracking disease activity for large groups of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients in clinical studies with a developed Systemic Lupus Activity Questionnaire (SLAQ).