James F. Fries

TL;DR: The Disability Index of the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ-DI) is a simple, robust tool that can fulfill these needs as discussed by the authors. But, use of this tool as a quality indicator (QI) is hampered by the unavailability of national reference values or benchmarks based on large, multicentric, heterogenous longitudinal patient cohorts.

TL;DR: A longitudinal sample of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from Santa Clara County, CA was analyzed and a unique "S" shaped curve was suggested that described the Disability Index and duration relation.

TL;DR: Despite causing disability, pain, and, in many, the need for long-term medication, patients with adult Still's disease are resilient and the disease did not interfere with educational attainment, occupational prestige, social functioning and support, time lost from work, or family income.

TL;DR: In a thoughtful article in this issue of JAMA, Schneider and Guralnik1 beat the pessimistic drum loudly and clearly.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the association of cardiovascular health at younger ages with the proportion of life lived free of morbidity, the cumulative burden of morbidities, and average healthcare costs.