Introduction This survey assessed the impact of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) on the lives of
patients based on the perceptions of both patients and healthcare professionals (HCPs) …

The COVID-19 pandemic forces the whole rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases
community to reassemble established treatment and research standards. Digital …

Objectives To explore treatment outcomes preferred by patients with early rheumatoid
arthritis (RA) and how these change throughout the early disease stage across three …

Background: Sociological understandings of chronic illness have revealed tensions and
complexities around help-seeking. Although ethics underpins healthcare, its application in …

Objective Patient registries have contributed substantially to progress in clinical research in
rheumatic diseases. However, not much is known about how to optimize the patient …

Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is associated with a number of costly disability-related
outcomes. It has received increasing attention from qualitative researchers studying its …

Introduction Rheumatic diseases are among the most common and debilitating health
problems in the United States. These diseases are chronic, can result in severe decrements …

Policy-makers and managers have always used a wide range of sources of evidence in
making decisions about policy and the organization of services. However, they are under …

Background Qualitative synthesis has become more commonplace in recent years. Meta-
ethnography is one of several methods for synthesising qualitative research and is being …

Background Syntheses of qualitative studies can inform health policy, services and our
understanding of patient experience. Meta-ethnography is a systematic seven-phase …