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O26 Testing an intervention to reduce fatigue impact in inflammatory arthritis: Design and outcomes of a single-arm feasibility study (2021)
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Bridgewater, S., Lomax, J., Abbott, B., Adams, J., Berry, A., Creanor, S., …Dures, E. (2021). O26 Testing an intervention to reduce fatigue impact in inflammatory arthritis: Design and outcomes of a single-arm feasibility study. Rheumatology, 60(S1), Article keab246.025. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keab246.025

Background/Aims Patients with inflammatory arthritis report that fatigue can be a challenging symptom to manage, with little support available. In response, we developed a brief one-to-one cognitive-behavioural manualised intervention, delivered by r... Read More about O26 Testing an intervention to reduce fatigue impact in inflammatory arthritis: Design and outcomes of a single-arm feasibility study.

The patient perspective of nurse-led care in early rheumatoid arthritis: A systematic review of qualitative studies with thematic analysis (2020)
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Sweeney, A. M. T., McCabe, C., Flurey, C. A., Robson, J. C., Berry, A., Richards, P., & Ndosi, M. (2021). The patient perspective of nurse-led care in early rheumatoid arthritis: A systematic review of qualitative studies with thematic analysis. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 30(1-2), 145-160. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15531

Introduction: Management of rheumatoid arthritis has changed dramatically over the last decade and is characterised by early start of intensive treatment and tight monitoring of disease activity until remission. The role of nurse-led care at early... Read More about The patient perspective of nurse-led care in early rheumatoid arthritis: A systematic review of qualitative studies with thematic analysis.

Educational needs of patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases attending a large health facility in Austria (2020)
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Hirsch, J. K., Toussaint, L., Offenbächer, M., Kohls, N., Hanshans, C., Vallejo, M., …Ndosi, M. (2020). Educational needs of patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases attending a large health facility in Austria. Musculoskeletal Care, 18(3), 391-396. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1474

Introduction Patient education is an important part of the management of rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases. Given that patients with diverse diseases do not have the same needs, it is crucial to assess the educational requirements of targeted g... Read More about Educational needs of patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases attending a large health facility in Austria.

Factors associated with quality of life in systemic sclerosis: a cross-sectional study (2019)
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Sierakowska, M., Doroszkiewicz, H., Sierakowska, J., Olesińska, M., Grabowska-Jodkowska, A., Brzosko, M., …Ndosi, M. (2019). Factors associated with quality of life in systemic sclerosis: a cross-sectional study. Quality of Life Research, 28(12), 3347-3354. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-019-02284-9

© 2019, The Author(s). Introduction: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a connective tissue disease characterized by progressive fibrosis of the skin and internal organs, leading to their failure and disturbances in the morphology and function of blood vess... Read More about Factors associated with quality of life in systemic sclerosis: a cross-sectional study.

2019 EULAR recommendations for the generic core competences of health professionals in rheumatology (2019)
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Edelaar, L., Nikiphorou, E., Fragoulis, G. E., Iagnocco, A., Haines, C., Bakkers, M., …Vliet Vlieland, T. P. M. (2020). 2019 EULAR recommendations for the generic core competences of health professionals in rheumatology. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 79(1), 53-60. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2019-215803

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. Background/objectives: To maintain and optimise the quality of care provided by health professionals in rheumatology (HPRs), adequate educati... Read More about 2019 EULAR recommendations for the generic core competences of health professionals in rheumatology.

Educational needs in people with ankylosing spondylitis and psoriatic arthritis: A cross-sectional study (2019)
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Marques, M. L., Ferreira, R. J. O., Machado, P. M., Marques, A., da Silva, J. A. P., & Ndosi, M. (2020). Educational needs in people with ankylosing spondylitis and psoriatic arthritis: A cross-sectional study. Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, 38(2), 282-288

Objective: To assess the educational needs of people with Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) and Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA), test differences across patient subgroups and identify factors independently associated with their educational needs. Methods: Thi... Read More about Educational needs in people with ankylosing spondylitis and psoriatic arthritis: A cross-sectional study.

2018 update of the EULAR recommendations for the role of the nurse in the management of chronic inflammatory arthritis (2019)
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Bech, B., Primdahl, J., Van Tubergen, A., Voshaar, M., Zangi, H. A., Barbosa, L., …Van Eijk-Hustings, Y. (2020). 2018 update of the EULAR recommendations for the role of the nurse in the management of chronic inflammatory arthritis. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 79(1), 61-68. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2019-215458

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. To update the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for the role of the nurse in the management of chronic inflammatory... Read More about 2018 update of the EULAR recommendations for the role of the nurse in the management of chronic inflammatory arthritis.

Impact of patient global assessment on achieving remission in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A multinational study using the METEOR database (2019)
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Ferreira, R. J. O., Carvalho, P. D., Ndosi, M., Duarte, C., Chopra, A., Murphy, E., …da Silva, J. A. P. (2019). Impact of patient global assessment on achieving remission in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A multinational study using the METEOR database. Arthritis Care and Research, 71(10), 1317-1325. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.23866

OBJECTIVE: There is an ongoing debate about excluding patient's global assessment (PtGA) from composite and Boolean-based definitions of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remission. This study aimed at determining the influence of PtGA on RA disease states,... Read More about Impact of patient global assessment on achieving remission in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A multinational study using the METEOR database.

The Portuguese Rheumatoid Arthritis Impact of Disease (RAID) score and its measurement equivalence in three countries: validation study using Rasch Models (2018)
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Ferreira, R. J. O., Gossec, L., Duarte, C., Nicklin, J. K., Hewlett, S., da Silva, J. A. P., & Ndosi, M. (2018). The Portuguese Rheumatoid Arthritis Impact of Disease (RAID) score and its measurement equivalence in three countries: validation study using Rasch Models. Quality of Life Research, 27(11), 2909-2921. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-018-1959-4

© 2018, The Author(s). Purpose: The Rheumatoid Arthritis Impact of Disease (RAID) score assesses seven impact domains of interest for people with RA. This study aimed to test patients’ understanding of the Portuguese RAID and evaluate its cross-cultu... Read More about The Portuguese Rheumatoid Arthritis Impact of Disease (RAID) score and its measurement equivalence in three countries: validation study using Rasch Models.

International Consortium for Health Outcome Measurement Set of Outcomes That Matter to People Living With Inflammatory Arthritis: Consensus From an International Working Group (2018)
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Oude Voshaar, M. A., Das Gupta, Z., Bijlsma, J. W., Boonen, A., Chau, J., Courvoisier, D. S., …Vonkeman, H. E. (2019). International Consortium for Health Outcome Measurement Set of Outcomes That Matter to People Living With Inflammatory Arthritis: Consensus From an International Working Group. Arthritis Care and Research, 71(12), 1556-1565. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.23799

© 2018, The Authors. Arthritis Care & Research published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American College of Rheumatology. Objective: The implementation of value-based health care in inflammatory arthritis requires a standardized set of mod... Read More about International Consortium for Health Outcome Measurement Set of Outcomes That Matter to People Living With Inflammatory Arthritis: Consensus From an International Working Group.

Dual target strategy: a proposal to mitigate the risk of overtreatment and enhance patient satisfaction in rheumatoid arthritis (2018)
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Ferreira, R. J. O., Ndosi, M., de Wit, M., Santos, E. J. F., Duarte, C., Jacobs, J. W. G., …da Silva, J. A. P. (2019). Dual target strategy: a proposal to mitigate the risk of overtreatment and enhance patient satisfaction in rheumatoid arthritis. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 78(10), e109. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2018-214199

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Pain, fatigue and functional disability are associated with higher educational needs in systemic sclerosis: a cross-sectional study (2018)
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Sierakowska, M., Sierakowski, S., Sierakowska, J., Krajewska-Kułak, E., & Ndosi, M. (2018). Pain, fatigue and functional disability are associated with higher educational needs in systemic sclerosis: a cross-sectional study. Rheumatology International, 38(8), 1471-1478. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-018-3998-0

© 2018, The Author(s). In the process of the planned and systematic education of patients/families, it is extremely important to identify patients’ health problems as well as their needs and expectations. The objective of this study was to determine... Read More about Pain, fatigue and functional disability are associated with higher educational needs in systemic sclerosis: a cross-sectional study.

Cross-cultural validation of the educational needs assessment tool into Chinese for use in severe knee osteoarthritis (2018)
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Zhao, H., Dong, Z., Xie, F., Wang, G., Wen, Z., Zhang, L., …Luo, W. (2018). Cross-cultural validation of the educational needs assessment tool into Chinese for use in severe knee osteoarthritis. Patient Preference and Adherence, 12(12), 695-705. https://doi.org/10.2147/PPA.S163492

© 2018 Zhao et al. Background: Patient education is an integral part of the management of osteoarthritis. The educational needs assessment tool (ENAT) was developed in the UK to help direct needs-based patient education in rheumatic diseases. Aim: Th... Read More about Cross-cultural validation of the educational needs assessment tool into Chinese for use in severe knee osteoarthritis.

Online interventions for addressing psychological distress in people with rheumatoid arthritis and other long-term conditions: A systematic review (2018)
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Fishpool, K., Jones, B., Hewlett, S., & Ndosi, M. (2018). Online interventions for addressing psychological distress in people with rheumatoid arthritis and other long-term conditions: A systematic review. Rheumatology, 57(Supp), https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/key075.501

Psychological distress in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is significantly higher than the general population and impacts disease activity and treatment outcomes. Online interventions have the potential to reach large numbers of patients. This study aimed... Read More about Online interventions for addressing psychological distress in people with rheumatoid arthritis and other long-term conditions: A systematic review.

Influence of the different “patient global assessment” formulations on disease activity score by different indices in rheumatoid arthritis (2018)
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Ferreira, R. J., Eugénio, G., Ndosi, M., Silva, C., Medeiros, C., Duarte, C., & da Silva, J. A. (2018). Influence of the different “patient global assessment” formulations on disease activity score by different indices in rheumatoid arthritis. Clinical Rheumatology, 37(7), 1963-1969. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-018-4063-9

© 2018, International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR). Patient global assessment (PGA) is included in almost all rheumatoid arthritis (RA) composite disease activity indices and definitions of remission. However, different PGA formulat... Read More about Influence of the different “patient global assessment” formulations on disease activity score by different indices in rheumatoid arthritis.

Common measure of quality of life for people with systemic sclerosis across seven European countries: A cross-sectional study (2018)
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Ndosi, M., Alcacer-Pitarch, B., Allanore, Y., Del galdo, F., Frerix, M., Garcia-Diaz, S., …Redmond, A. (2018). Common measure of quality of life for people with systemic sclerosis across seven European countries: A cross-sectional study. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 77(7), 1032-1038. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2017-212412

© Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. Objectives the aim of this study was to adapt the Systemic Sclerosis Quality of Life Questionnaire (SScQoL) into six European... Read More about Common measure of quality of life for people with systemic sclerosis across seven European countries: A cross-sectional study.

The educational needs of patients with undifferentiated spondyloarthritis: Validation of the ENAT questionnaire and needs assessment (2018)
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Bremander, A., Haglund, E., Bergman, S., & Ndosi, M. (2018). The educational needs of patients with undifferentiated spondyloarthritis: Validation of the ENAT questionnaire and needs assessment. Musculoskeletal Care, 16(2), 313-317. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1231

Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Objectives: The aim of the present study was to validate the Swedish version of the educational needs assessment tool (SwENAT) in undifferentiated spondyloarthritis (USpA) and use it to study the educationa... Read More about The educational needs of patients with undifferentiated spondyloarthritis: Validation of the ENAT questionnaire and needs assessment.