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Patient-Centered Care Model for RA Flares Could Improve Self-Management of Symptoms

December 16, 2015 • By Mary Beth Nierengarten

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Having a better way to measure flares would help patients know how to better manage their flares, improving their quality of life.

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Having a better way to measure
flares would help patients know
how to better manage their flares,
improving their quality of life.

A recent trend to incorporate patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in clinical research, and ultimately clinical practice, is a response to the need to better measure and treat what patients truly care about, and adapt to the changing healthcare environment, which increasingly includes patient satisfaction as a key metric for overall quality of care, a metric tied to such issues as reimbursement.

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In rheumatology, including PROs in research and practice is particularly important given the nature of inflammatory diseases, says Yasser El Miedany, MD, consultant rheumatologist at Medway Maritime Hospital in Kent, United Kingdom, and honorary senior clinical lecturer at King’s College in London, who has written numerous articles about patient-centered care in rheumatology.1-3

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“In inflammatory arthritic conditions, excluding gouty arthritis, there is not a single ‘gold standard’ measure to assess outcomes,” says Dr. El Miedany, adding that the introduction of biologics and the recently adopted treat-to-target concept has changed the way clinicians look at these conditions and the short- and long-term impacts they have on patients’ lives.

“The success achieved over past years in controlling disease activity draws attention to other outcomes, such as quality of life, ability to work and absence from work because of the arthritic condition, as well as co-morbidities,” he says.

Dr. El Miedany

Dr. El Miedany

To fully implement patient-centered care, therefore, requires gathering information from patients about their experience with their condition and developing valid and reliable metrics to measure what traditionally have been viewed as soft data or subjective experience. To that end, the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recently recommended involving patients in research.4

An example of efforts underway to involve patients in research comes from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore where investigators—collaborating with a broad range of stakeholders worldwide—have been working to develop a metric to quantify and qualify patients’ experience with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) flares.

Creating a Patient-Centered Care Model for RA Flares

Since 2006, Clifton O. Bingham, III, MD, associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University and director of Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center, and Susan Bartlett, PhD, associate professor of medicine at McGill University in Montreal and adjunct associate professor at Johns Hopkins, have worked with a worldwide consortium to better understand and develop a standardized outcome measure for RA flares.

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Filed Under: Conditions, Practice Management, Rheumatoid Arthritis Tagged With: partient satisfaction, patient care, patient-centered care, Practice Management, RA, Rheumatoid arthritis, symptoms, TreatmentIssue: December 2015

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