Influence of large joint involvement on patient-physician discordance in global assessment of rheumatoid arthritis disease activity analyzed by a novel joint index.

CONCLUSIONS: RA care providers should focus on pain and functional disability to decrease PGA-PhGA discordance. High disease activity and large joint involvement decreased PGA-PhGA discordance, indicating that the number and distribution of affected joints influenced the perception of disease activity by patients with RA and their physicians.
PMID: 29611628 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Pain Physician - April 3, 2018 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tago M, Sawada T, Nishiyama S, Tahara K, Kato E, Hayashi H, Mori H, Nishino J, Matsui T, Tohma S Tags: Int J Rheum Dis Source Type: research