Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic chronic arthritic inflammatory disease
that affects daily life and work. Therefore, the treatment goals include subjective indicators …

Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, debilitating disease for which there is no
cure. Objectives To identify and better understand the perspective of patients (pts) regarding …

A large base of evidence exists regarding treatments for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and how
they may be used to preserve long-term function and improve patient outcomes. However …

Background Previous studies have not addressed rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients' help-
seeking behaviours for RA flares, and only one small qualitative study has addressed how …

Background After symptom onset, persons later on diagnosed with Early Rheumatoid
Arthritis (ERA), often delay their contact with a health care professional (HCP). Moreover …

Background As a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease, rheumatoid arthritis greatly
impacts patients9 physical and psychosocial well-being. 1 A recent integrative literature …

Abstract Background Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) aid in rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
management, but it is not well understood which measures would be most relevant to the …

Background Patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments are used to assess the patient
experience of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) symptoms and impacts and can capture RA …

Objective To unravel disease impact in early RA patients by separately quantifying patient
reported (PRF), clinical (CF) and laboratory (LF) factors. We put forward a new indicator, the …

Objective The migration of health care toward a consumer‐driven system favors increased
patient participation during the treatment decision‐making process. Patient involvement in …