Assessment of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Clinical Care

Abstract

Abst ractQuantitative clinical monitoring of patients with musculoskeletal conditions should be included in the infrastructure of every clinical practice. Quantitative monitoring improves the physician's capacity to assess and document a patient's clinical status and changes over time, which leads to greater accuracy in the underlying rationale for clinical decisions. Furthermore, routine data collection in consecutive patients facilitates analyses of groups of patients over long periods in usual care, beyond information that can be obtained from randomized clinical trials. (

Differences in prevalence of self‐reported oral hypofunction between older adult patients with rheumatoid arthritis and the general older population: A cross‐sectional study using propensity score matching

“…Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that mainly manifests as the inflammation of joints and synovial surfaces 9 . RA causes permanent work disability and disruption of daily life because of joint destruction caused by autoimmune adverse reactions 10 . The number of older adults with RA is rising, 11 because of increasing life expectancy 12 and late‐onset cases 11 .…”