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2010 Rheumatoid arthritis classification criteria: An American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism collaborative initiative

scholarly article by Daniel Aletaha et al published 10 August 2010 in Arthritis and Rheumatism

2010 rheumatoid arthritis classification criteria: an American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism collaborative initiative

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A Genomewide Screen in Multiplex Rheumatoid Arthritis Families Suggests Genetic Overlap with Other Autoimmune Diseases

scholarly article by Damini Jawaheer et al published April 2001 in American Journal of Human Genetics

A RheuMetric physician checklist to quantitate levels of inflammation, damage and distress on 0-10 visual analogue scales

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A Standard Protocol to Evaluate Rheumatoid Arthritis (SPERA) for efficient capture of essential data from a patient and a health professional in a uniform "scientific" format

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A biopsychosocial model to complement a biomedical model: patient questionnaire data and socioeconomic status usually are more significant than laboratory tests and imaging studies in prognosis of rheumatoid arthritis

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A composite disease activity scale for clinical practice, observational studies, and clinical trials: the patient activity scale (PAS/PAS-II)

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

A multi-dimensional health assessment questionnaire (MDHAQ) and routine assessment of patient index data (RAPID3) scores are informative in patients with all rheumatic diseases

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A practical guide to scoring a Multi-Dimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire (MDHAQ) and Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data (RAPID) scores in 10-20 seconds for use in standard clinical care, without rulers, calculators, websites or compute

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A proposed continuous quality improvement approach to assessment and management of patients with rheumatoid arthritis without formal joint counts, based on quantitative routine assessment of patient index data (RAPID) scores on a multidimensional he

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A three-page Standard Protocol to Evaluate Rheumatoid Arthritis (SPERA) for efficient capture of essential data from patients and health professionals in standard clinical care and clinical research

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Adipocytokines are associated with radiographic joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis.

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Advantages and limitations of quantitative measures to assess rheumatoid arthritis: joint counts, radiographs, laboratory tests, and patient questionnaires.

scientific article published on January 2006

American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism provisional definition of remission in rheumatoid arthritis for clinical trials ⬇️

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Amino-terminal fragment of the prohormone brain-type natriuretic peptide in rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on September 2008

An evidence-based medical visit for patients with rheumatoid arthritis based on standard, quantitative scientific data from a patient MDHAQ and physician report.

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Are long-term very low doses of prednisone for patients with rheumatoid arthritis as helpful as high doses are harmful?.

scientific article published in January 2002

Are patient questionnaire scores as "scientific" as laboratory tests for rheumatology clinical care?

scientific article published in January 2010

Are patient self-report questionnaires as "scientific" as biomarkers in "treat-to-target" and prognosis in rheumatoid arthritis?

scientific article published in January 2015

Assessing dyspnea and its impact on patients with connective tissue disease-related interstitial lung disease

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Assessing remission in rheumatoid arthritis on the basis of patient reported outcomes--advantages of using RAPID3/MDHAQ in routine care

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Assessment of fatigue in routine care on a Multidimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire (MDHAQ): a cross-sectional study of associations with RAPID3 and other variables in different rheumatic diseases

scientific article published on 6 July 2016

Assessment of pain and other patient symptoms in routine clinical care as quantitative, standardised, "scientific" data

scientific article published on 28 September 2017

Beyond RAPID3 - practical use of the MDHAQ to improve doctor-patient communication.

scientific article published on January 2010

Can RAPID3, an index without formal joint counts or laboratory tests, serve to guide rheumatologists in tight control of rheumatoid arthritis in usual clinical care?

scientific article published on January 2009

Can a Multi-Dimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire (MDHAQ) and Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data (RAPID) scores be informative in patients with all rheumatic diseases?

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Cardiovascular disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from the QUEST-RA study

scientific article published on 6 March 2008

Circadian use of glucocorticoids in rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on 12 September 2014

Clinical trials documenting the efficacy of low-dose glucocorticoids in rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on 12 September 2014

Clinical trials in rheumatic diseases: designs and limitations

scientific article published in November 2004

Clues on the MDHAQ to identify patients with fibromyalgia and similar chronic pain conditions

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Combination Therapy with Cyclosporine and Methotrexate in Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis

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Combination treatment of severe rheumatoid arthritis with cyclosporine and methotrexate for forty-eight weeks. An open-label extension study

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Complex measures and indices for clinical research compared with simple patient questionnaires to assess function, pain, and global estimates as rheumatology "vital signs" for usual clinical care

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Complexities in assessment of rheumatoid arthritis: absence of a single gold standard measure

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Contemporary disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARD) in patients with recent onset rheumatoid arthritis in a US private practice: methotrexate as the anchor drug in 90% and new DMARD in 30% of patients.

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Continuous indices of core data set measures in rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials: lower responses to placebo than seen with categorical responses with the American College of Rheumatology 20% criteria

scientific article published in April 2005

Criterion contamination of depression scales in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: the need for interpretation of patient questionnaires (as all clinical measures) in the context of all information about the patient

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Declines in erythrocyte sedimentation rates in patients with rheumatoid arthritis over the second half of the 20th century

scientific article published on 16 June 2009

Differences in treat-to-target in patients with rheumatoid arthritis versus hypertension and diabetes--consequences for clinical care.

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Discordance of Global Assessments by Patient and Physician Is Higher in Female than in Male Patients Regardless of the Physician's Sex: Data on Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Axial Spondyloarthritis, and Psoriatic Arthritis from the DANBIO Regi

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Documenting the value of care for rheumatoid arthritis, analogous to hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia: is control of individual patient self-report measures of global estimate and physical function more valuable than laboratory tests, radi

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Effective initial and long-term prednisone in doses of less than 5 mg/day to treat rheumatoid arthritis--documentation using a patient self-report Multidimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire (MDHAQ).

scientific article published on January 2012

Efficacy and safety of methotrexate in combination with other non-biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on January 2013

Erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, or rheumatoid factor are normal at presentation in 35%-45% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis seen between 1980 and 2004: analyses from Finland and the United States

scientific article published in May 2009

Evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence

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Flowsheets that include MDHAQ physical function, pain, global, and RAPID3 scores, laboratory tests, and medications to monitor patients with all rheumatic diseases: an electronic database for an electronic medical record

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GUEPARD treat-to-target strategy is significantly more efficacious than ESPOIR routine care in early rheumatoid arthritis according to patient-reported outcomes and physician global estimate

scientific article published on 17 July 2013

How to collect an MDHAQ to provide rheumatology vital signs (function, pain, global status, and RAPID3 scores) in the infrastructure of rheumatology care, including some misconceptions regarding the MDHAQ.

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Implementation of Treat-to-Target in Rheumatoid Arthritis Through a Learning Collaborative: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

scientific article published on 17 May 2017

Importance of patient history and physical examination in rheumatoid arthritis compared to other chronic diseases: results of a physician survey

scientific article published in August 2012

In the clinic. Rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on July 2010

Inflammation-associated insulin resistance: differential effects in rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus define potential mechanisms

scientific article published on July 2008

Inflammatory mediators and premature coronary atherosclerosis in rheumatoid arthritis

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Information technology in rheumatology

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Joint counts to assess rheumatoid arthritis for clinical research and usual clinical care: advantages and limitations

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Laboratory tests to assess patients with rheumatoid arthritis: advantages and limitations

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Limitations of a quantitative swollen and tender joint count to assess and monitor patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

scientific article published on January 2008

Limitations of clinical trials in chronic diseases: is the efficacy of methotrexate (MTX) underestimated in polyarticular psoriatic arthritis on the basis of limitations of clinical trials more than on limitations of MTX, as was seen in rheumatoid a

scientific article published on 15 October 2015

Limitations of randomized clinical trials in chronic diseases: explanations and recommendations.

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Limited Value of the Multi-Biomarker Disease Activity Assay Compared to the Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data 3 (RAPID3) Score in the Prognosis of Important Clinical Outcomes in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Comment on the Article by Fleischmann et a

scientific article published on 3 March 2017

Lipoprotein subclasses determined by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and coronary atherosclerosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

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MDHAQ/RAPID3 can provide a roadmap or agenda for all rheumatology visits when the entire MDHAQ is completed at all patient visits and reviewed by the doctor before the encounter.

scientific article published on January 2012

MDHAQ/RAPID3 scores in patients with osteoarthritis are similar to or higher than in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional study from current routine rheumatology care at four sites

scientific article published on 18 July 2017

MDHAQ/RAPID3 scores: quantitative patient history data in a standardized "scientific" format for optimal assessment of patient status and quality of care in rheumatic diseases.

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MDHAQ/RAPID3 to recognize improvement over 2 months in usual care of patients with osteoarthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, spondyloarthropathy, and gout, as well as rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published in June 2013

Making an impact on mortality in rheumatoid arthritis: targeting cardiovascular comorbidity

scientific article published on June 2004

Minimal Clinically Important Improvement of Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data 3 in Rheumatoid Arthritis

scholarly article by Michael M Ward et al published 15 October 2018 in The Journal of Rheumatology

Morning stiffness in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis is associated more strongly with functional disability than with joint swelling and erythrocyte sedimentation rate

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Most patients receiving routine care for rheumatoid arthritis in 2001 did not meet inclusion criteria for most recent clinical trials or american college of rheumatology criteria for remission

scientific article published in June 2003

Pain and other self-report scores in patients with osteoarthritis indicate generally similar disease burden to patients with rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on 28 September 2017

Pain, function, and RAPID scores: vital signs in chronic diseases, analogous to pulse and temperature in acute diseases and blood pressure and cholesterol in long-term health

scientific article published on January 2008

Patient preference in a crossover clinical trial of patients with osteoarthritis of the knee or hip: face validity of self-report questionnaire ratings.

scientific article published in March 2005

Patient questionnaires and formal education as more significant prognostic markers than radiographs or laboratory tests for rheumatoid arthritis mortality--limitations of a biomedical model to predict long-term outcomes

scientific article published on January 2007

Patient questionnaires and formal education level as prospective predictors of mortality over 10 years in 97% of 1416 patients with rheumatoid arthritis from 15 United States private practices.

scientific article published in February 2004

Patient questionnaires for clinical research and improved standard patient care: is it better to have 80% of the information in 100% of patients or 100% of the information in 5% of patients?

scientific article published in April 2005

Patient questionnaires in rheumatoid arthritis: advantages and limitations as a quantitative, standardized scientific medical history

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Patient self-report RADAI (Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Index) joint counts on an MDHAQ (Multidimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire) in usual care of consecutive patients with rheumatic diseases other than rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published in February 2013

Physical inactivity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: data from twenty-one countries in a cross-sectional, international study

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Poor physical function, pain and limited exercise: risk factors for premature mortality in the range of smoking or hypertension, identified on a simple patient self-report questionnaire for usual care

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Possible discontinuation of therapies in inflammatory rheumatic diseases - as with initiation of therapies, a shared decision between patient and rheumatologist.

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Pragmatic and scientific advantages of MDHAQ/ RAPID3 completion by all patients at all visits in routine clinical care

scientific article published on January 2012

Pragmatic assessment of exercise in routine care using an MDHAQ: associations with changes in RAPID3 and other clinical variables

scientific article published on 06 September 2016

Prediction of Remission in a French Early Arthritis Cohort by RAPID3 and other Core Data Set Measures, but Not by the Absence of Rheumatoid Factor, Anticitrullinated Protein Antibodies, or Radiographic Erosions

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Preliminary evaluation of a visual analog function scale for use in rheumatoid arthritis

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Proposed severity and response criteria for Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data (RAPID3): results for categories of disease activity and response criteria in abatacept clinical trials

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QUEST-RA: quantitative clinical assessment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis seen in standard rheumatology care in 15 countries

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Quality control of a medical history: improving accuracy with patient participation, supported by a four-page version of the multidimensional health assessment questionnaire (MDHAQ).

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Quantitative data for care of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus in usual clinical settings: a patient Multidimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire and physician estimate of noninflammatory symptoms

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Quantitative measures and indices to assess rheumatoid arthritis in clinical trials and clinical care

scientific article published in November 2004

Quantitative measures for assessing rheumatoid arthritis in clinical trials and clinical care

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Quantitative measures of rheumatic diseases for clinical research versus standard clinical care: differences, advantages and limitations

scientific article published on August 2007

Quantitative measures to assess patients with rheumatic diseases: 2006 update

scientific article published on December 2006

Quantitative recording of physician clinical estimates, beyond a global estimate and formal joint count, in usual care: applying the scientific method, using a simple one-page worksheet

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RAPID3 (Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data 3) severity categories and response criteria: Similar results to DAS28 (Disease Activity Score) and CDAI (Clinical Disease Activity Index) in the RAPID 1 (Rheumatoid Arthritis Prevention of Structural

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RAPID3 (Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data 3), a rheumatoid arthritis index without formal joint counts for routine care: proposed severity categories compared to disease activity score and clinical disease activity index categories

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RAPID3 (Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data) on an MDHAQ (Multidimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire): agreement with DAS28 (Disease Activity Score) and CDAI (Clinical Disease Activity Index) activity categories, scored in five versus mor

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RAPID3, an index of only 3 patient self-report core data set measures, but not ESR, recognizes incomplete responses to methotrexate in usual care of patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

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RAPID3, an index to assess and monitor patients with rheumatoid arthritis, without formal joint counts: similar results to DAS28 and CDAI in clinical trials and clinical care

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RAPID3-an index of physical function, pain, and global status as "vital signs" to improve care for people with chronic rheumatic diseases.

scientific article published on January 2009

RHEUMDOC: a one-page RHEUMatology DOCtor form with four physician global estimates for overall status, inflammation, damage, and symptoms based on neither inflammation nor damage.

scientific article published in January 2014

Radiographic measures to assess patients with rheumatoid arthritis: advantages and limitations

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Remission and rheumatoid arthritis: data on patients receiving usual care in twenty-four countries

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Responsiveness of a simple RAPID-3-like index compared to disease-specific BASDAI and ASDAS indices in patients with axial spondyloarthritis

scientific article published on 7 July 2016

RheuMetric A Physician Checklist to Record Patient Levels of Inflammation, Damage and Distress as Quantitative Data Rather than as Narrative Impressions

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Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data (RAPID3) and Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI) Scores Yield Similar Information in 85 Korean Patients With Ankylosing Spondylitis Seen in Usual Clinical Care

scientific article published on September 2015

Screening the genome for rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility genes: a replication study and combined analysis of 512 multicase families

scientific article published in April 2003

Serum osteoprotegerin is increased and independently associated with coronary-artery atherosclerosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

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The 2010 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis: Phase 2 methodological report

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The HAQ compared with the MDHAQ: "keep it simple, stupid" (KISS), with feasibility and clinical value as primary criteria for patient questionnaires in usual clinical care

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The assessment of rheumatoid arthritis and the acceptability of self-report questionnaires in clinical practice

scientific article published on 01 February 2003

The disease activity score is not suitable as the sole criterion for initiation and evaluation of anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy in the clinic: discordance between assessment measures and limitations in questionnaire use for regulatory purposes

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

The legacies of Rudolf Virchow: cellular medicine in the 20th century and social medicine in the 21st century.

scientific article published in June 2003

The past versus the present, 1980-2004: reduction of mean initial low-dose, long-term glucocorticoid therapy in rheumatoid arthritis from 10.3 to 3.6 mg/day, concomitant with early methotrexate, with long-term effectiveness and safety of less than 5

scientific article published on 12 September 2014

Time to score quantitative rheumatoid arthritis measures: 28-Joint Count, Disease Activity Score, Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ), Multidimensional HAQ (MDHAQ), and Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data (RAPID) scores

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Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis: a global perspective on the use of antirheumatic drugs

scientific article published on 25 April 2008

Update on imaging in rheumatic diseases

Update on methotrexate as the anchor drug for rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on January 2013

Utility of the Framingham risk score to predict the presence of coronary atherosclerosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on January 2006

Value of RAPID3 in patients with PsA: results from the TICOPA and LOPAS II databases ⬇️

scientific article published on 7 November 2017

Visual analog scales in formats other than a 10 centimeter horizontal line to assess pain and other clinical data.

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Women, men, and rheumatoid arthritis: analyses of disease activity, disease characteristics, and treatments in the QUEST-RA study

scientific article published on 14 January 2009

Work disability remains a major problem in rheumatoid arthritis in the 2000s: data from 32 countries in the QUEST-RA study

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