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E041 Feasibility and acceptability of electronic patient reported outcome measures in the routine care of people with inflammatory arthritis: Haywood Arthritis Portal study (2024)
Presentation / Conference

Background/Aims Electronic patient-reported outcome measures (ePROMs) assessing disease activity, function, pain, and quality of life can facilitate innovative inflammatory arthritis (IA) care, such as automating patient-initiated follow-up. This mix... Read More about E041 Feasibility and acceptability of electronic patient reported outcome measures in the routine care of people with inflammatory arthritis: Haywood Arthritis Portal study.

P185 Anatomical patterns of pain in primary care patients with polymyalgia rheumatica compared to the general population (2024)
Presentation / Conference

Background/Aims Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is common in older adults, causing severe pain and stiffness, particularly in the shoulder and hip girdles. A tapered course of glucocorticoids is recommended, but not always straightforward, with frequent... Read More about P185 Anatomical patterns of pain in primary care patients with polymyalgia rheumatica compared to the general population.

P182 Exercise and activity in polymyalgia rheumatica: co-creating an education resource acceptable to patients and health professionals (2024)
Presentation / Conference

Background/Aims People with PMR report experiencing pain, stiffness and weakness, often impacting everyday tasks. Many fear exercise will exacerbate symptoms and need reassurance that exercise is helpful and not harmful. However, no PMR-specific, exe... Read More about P182 Exercise and activity in polymyalgia rheumatica: co-creating an education resource acceptable to patients and health professionals.

P064 It’s a long time to wait: exploring the support needs of people with rheumatoid arthritis starting methotrexate (2024)
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Background/Aims Methotrexate (MTX) is recommended as initial Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drug (DMARD) therapy for people with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) but often takes several months to become effective. Little is known about the support needs o... Read More about P064 It’s a long time to wait: exploring the support needs of people with rheumatoid arthritis starting methotrexate.

OA32 A national survey of rheumatology telephone adviceline support in the United Kingdom: frontline perspectives (2024)
Presentation / Conference

Background/Aims Telephone advicelines (TALs) are a core feature of rheumatology services and highly valued by patients for providing clinical advice and support. The demand for TALs has increased since the pandemic, placing pressure on current capaci... Read More about OA32 A national survey of rheumatology telephone adviceline support in the United Kingdom: frontline perspectives.

The information required by people with inflammatory arthritis to take methotrexate: a mixed-methods systematic review (2024)
Journal Article

Objectives This mixed-methods systematic review aimed to identify and synthesize knowledge of the characteristics, content, and preferred format of information to support people with inflammatory arthritis (IA) to take methotrexate. Methods A literat... Read More about The information required by people with inflammatory arthritis to take methotrexate: a mixed-methods systematic review.

Analgesic Prescribing in Patients with Inflammatory Arthritis in England: Observational Studies in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (2023)
Journal Article

Despite little evidence that analgesics are effective in inflammatory arthritis (IA), studies report substantial opioid prescribing. The extent this applies to other analgesics is uncertain. We undertook a comprehensive evaluation of analgesic prescr... Read More about Analgesic Prescribing in Patients with Inflammatory Arthritis in England: Observational Studies in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink.

Summarizing Evidence of Associations of COVID‐19 With a Future Diagnosis of Inflammatory Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases: A Rapid Review (2023)
Journal Article

Musculoskeletal symptoms are commonly reported following acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19). It is unclear whether those with musculoskeletal symptoms subsequently develop inflammatory rheumatic musculoskeletal disease (iRMD). This review seek... Read More about Summarizing Evidence of Associations of COVID‐19 With a Future Diagnosis of Inflammatory Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases: A Rapid Review.

OP0275-HPR ‘IT’S A LOT TO TAKE IN’: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE INFORMATION NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH INFLAMMATORY ARTHRITIS STARTING METHOTREXATE (2023)
Presentation / Conference

Background Guidelines recommend that people with Inflammatory Arthritis have access to tailored information when starting treatment with Methotrexate (MTX) [1]. It is not known what information people with Inflammatory Arthritis (IA) need to take MTX... Read More about OP0275-HPR ‘IT’S A LOT TO TAKE IN’: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE INFORMATION NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH INFLAMMATORY ARTHRITIS STARTING METHOTREXATE.

AB1595 HOW DO WE PREVENT THE DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIMORBIDITY IN PEOPLE WITH INFLAMMATORY RHEUMATOLOGICAL DISORDERS: A QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION (2023)
Journal Article

Background: People with inflammatory rheumatological disorders (IRDs) are at high risk of developing multimorbidity, specifically cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mood problems. UK guidelines advocate annual reviews for people with Rheumatoid Arthrit... Read More about AB1595 HOW DO WE PREVENT THE DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIMORBIDITY IN PEOPLE WITH INFLAMMATORY RHEUMATOLOGICAL DISORDERS: A QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION.