Barriers to treatment optimization and achievement of patients' goals: perspectives from people living with rheumatoid arthritis enrolled in the ArthritisPower registry.

CONCLUSIONS: Most participants trusted their rheumatologist's treatment decisions and prioritized their physician's treatment goals over their own. Patients should be encouraged to share their treatment goals/expectations with their rheumatologist, in line with the treat-to-target approach. RAPID3 may be inappropriate for setting patient-centric treatment goals given the poor agreement with self-reported disease activity; most PROMIS scores showed better alignment with patients' own assessments. PMID: 31910893 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31910893?dopt=Abstract

Source: Pain Physician - January 6, 2020 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Gavigan K, Nowell WB, Serna MS, Stark JL, Yassine M, Curtis JR Tags: Arthritis Res Ther Source Type: research