Patient and clinician views on an app for rheumatoid arthritis disease monitoring: Function, implementation and implications

ConclusionPeople with RA and healthcare professionals have clearly identified features, benefits and risks of an app for self ‐assessment of RA and incorporation into clinical care. An app developed informed by these opinions has high usability. Next steps are development and validation of a method of patient‐performed joint counts, and implementation, with evaluation, in the clinical setting.

Source: International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases - May 17, 2020 Category: Rheumatology Authors: Rebecca Grainger, Hermaleigh Roberta Townsley, Catherine Anna Ferguson, Faye Ellen Riley, Tobias Langlotz, William John Taylor Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research