Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Podcast - assessing RA

Assessing disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis


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Development and preliminary assessment of a simple measure of overall status in rheumatoid arthritis (OSRA) for routine clinical use. Symmons DPM, Hassell AB, Gunatillaka KAN, Jones PW, Schollum J, Dawes PT. Q J Med 1995;88:429–37

Disease activity score The home of the DAS

The DAS28 in rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia patients. B. F. Leeb, I. Andel, J. Sautner, T. Nothnagl and B. Rintelen. Rheumatology 2004 43(12):1504-1507

In this podcast I have not addressed the wider assessment beyond disease activity, but will address this in a later podcast which will include discussion of questionnaires in assessment.

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