The diagnostic and triage accuracy of digital and online symptom checker tools: a systematic review

W Wallace, C Chan, S Chidambaram, L Hanna… - NPJ digital …, 2022 - nature.com
Digital and online symptom checkers are an increasingly adopted class of health
technologies that enable patients to input their symptoms and biodata to produce a set of …

Patient's perception of digital symptom assessment technologies in rheumatology: results from a multicentre study

J Knitza, F Muehlensiepen, Y Ignatyev… - Frontiers in Public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction An increasing number of digital tools, including dedicated diagnostic decision
support systems (DDSS) exist to better assess new symptoms and understand when and …

[HTML][HTML] Diagnostic accuracy of a mobile AI-based symptom checker and a web-based self-referral tool in rheumatology: multicenter randomized controlled trial

J Knitza, K Tascilar, F Fuchs, J Mohn, S Kuhn… - Journal of Medical …, 2024 - jmir.org
Background The diagnosis of inflammatory rheumatic diseases (IRDs) is often delayed due
to unspecific symptoms and a shortage of rheumatologists. Digital diagnostic decision …

Digital diagnostic support in rheumatology

J Knitza, M Krusche, J Leipe - Zeitschrift für Rheumatologie, 2021 - Springer
Erst die korrekte Diagnose ermöglicht die effektive Behandlung von rheumatologischen
Erkrankungen. Die Digitalisierung hat unseren Alltag bereits wesentlich beschleunigt und …

Radiographic and non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis are not routinely distinguished in everyday clinical care: an analysis of real-world data from rheumatology …

S Kleinert, F Schuch, P Rapp, M Ronneberger… - Rheumatology …, 2024 - Springer
The categorization of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) into radiographic (r-axSpA) and non-
radiographic (nr-axSpA) subtypes is important in clinical trials but may be of less value in …

Digitally-supported patient-centered asynchronous outpatient follow-up in rheumatoid arthritis-an explorative qualitative study

R Stenzel, K Hadaschik, S May, M Grahammer… - BMC Health Services …, 2022 - Springer
Objective A steadily increasing demand and decreasing number of rheumatologists push
current rheumatology care to its limits. Long travel times and poor accessibility of …

Machine learning-based improvement of an online rheumatology referral and triage system

J Knitza, L Janousek, F Kluge… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Rheport is an online rheumatology referral system allowing automatic
appointment triaging of new rheumatology patient referrals according to the respective …

Impairment in cognitive function in patients with axial spondyloarthritis and psoriatic arthritis

S Kleinert, F Schuch, P Rapp, M Ronneberger… - Rheumatology …, 2023 - Springer
Spondyloarthritis may contribute to deficits in cognition. The objective of this study was to
compare cognitive abilities in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) or psoriatic …

Analysis of the shorter drug survival times for Janus kinase inhibitors and interleukin-17 inhibitors compared with tumor necrosis factor inhibitors in a real-world cohort …

PP Strunz, M Englbrecht, LM Risser, T Witte… - Rheumatology …, 2024 - Springer
In recent years Janus kinase inhibitors (JAKi) have joined tumor necrosis factor inhibitors
(TNFi) and interleukin (IL)-17 inhibitors (IL-17i) as approved disease modifying anti …

Drug survival superiority of tumor necrosis factor inhibitors and interleukin-17 inhibitors over Janus kinase inhibitors and interleukin-12/23 inhibitors in German …

PP Strunz, M Englbrecht, LM Risser, T Witte… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Objective Treatment options with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) for
psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have evolved over recent years. In addition to Janus kinase inhibitors …