An increasing focus has over recent years been directed to the use of categorical endpoints
to define response, ie to define cut-points for important improvement and/or acceptable …

Objectives The authors aim to develop European League Against Rheumatism recommendations
for the role of the nurse in the management of patients with chronic inflammatory …

The objective of the Patient Perspective Workshop at OMERACT 6 was to address the
question of assessing the outcomes of intervention in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from the …

Introduction The objective was to develop a questionnaire that can be used to calculate a
score reflecting the impact of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) from the patients’ perspective: the PsA …

Objective A patient-derived composite measure of the impact of rheumatoid arthritis (RA),
the rheumatoid arthritis impact of disease (RAID) score, takes into account pain, functional …

… Clinical and demographic variables were compared between patients with and without
preferences for improvement in the various areas of health by using two-sample t-tests (…

Background: Current response criteria in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) usually assess only three
patient-reported outcomes (PROs): pain, functional disability and patient global assessment. …

… Heiberg T, Kvein TK. Preferences for improved health examined in 1,024 patients with
rheumatoid arthritis: pain has highest priority. Arthritis Care Res 2002:47:391–7. …

Patient or consumer involvement in research is widely recommended, but although guidelines
for researchers and patients have been produced, few practical experiences have been …

Objectives: To examine possible changes in priorities for improvement in health and health
status from 1994 to 2001 within the setting of the Oslo Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Register, …