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Revisiting the use of remission criteria for rheumatoid arthritis by excluding patient global assessment: An individual meta-analysis of 5792 patients (2020)
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Ferreira, R. J. O., Welsing, P. M. J., Jacobs, J. W. G., Gossec, L., Ndosi, M., Machado, P. M., …Da Silva, J. A. P. (2021). Revisiting the use of remission criteria for rheumatoid arthritis by excluding patient global assessment: An individual meta-analysis of 5792 patients. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 80(3), 277-279. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217171

Objectives: To determine the impact of excluding patient global assessment (PGA) from the American College of Rheumatology (ACR)/European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Boolean remission criteria, on prediction of radiographic and functional outco... Read More about Revisiting the use of remission criteria for rheumatoid arthritis by excluding patient global assessment: An individual meta-analysis of 5792 patients.

Validation of the Italian version of the educational needs assessment tool in rheumatoid arthritis patients and factors associated with educational needs (2020)
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Favero, M., Ometto, F., Salaffi, F., Belluzzi, E., Ortolan, A., Lorenzin, M., …Ramonda, R. (2020). Validation of the Italian version of the educational needs assessment tool in rheumatoid arthritis patients and factors associated with educational needs. Journal of Personalized Medicine, 10(4), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm10040150

The educational needs assessment tool (ENAT) is a seven-domain questionnaire assessing the educational needs (EN) of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The aim of this study was to validate the Italian version of the ENAT and to identify factor... Read More about Validation of the Italian version of the educational needs assessment tool in rheumatoid arthritis patients and factors associated with educational needs.

OP0157-HPR Dissemination and assessing implementation of the EULAR recommendations for patient education for people with inflammatory arthritis across Europe (2020)
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Bennett, S., Zangi, H. A., Van Tubergen, A., & Ndosi, M. (2020). OP0157-HPR Dissemination and assessing implementation of the EULAR recommendations for patient education for people with inflammatory arthritis across Europe. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 79(S1), 99--99. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-eular.3251

Background: EULAR recommendations for patient education for people with inflammatory arthritis (IA) were published in 2015.1 This is the first systematic dissemination and implementation study, reporting qualitative data identifying barriers to imple... Read More about OP0157-HPR Dissemination and assessing implementation of the EULAR recommendations for patient education for people with inflammatory arthritis across Europe.

Psychological and self-management support for people with vasculitis or connective tissue diseases: UK health professionals' perspectives (2020)
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Austin, K., Robson, J. C., Shepherd, M., Harper, L., Ndosi, M., Flurey, C., …Dures, E. (2020). Psychological and self-management support for people with vasculitis or connective tissue diseases: UK health professionals' perspectives. Rheumatology Advances in Practice, 4(2), Article rkaa016. https://doi.org/10.1093/rap/rkaa016

© The Author(s) 2020. Objectives. CTD and systemic vasculitis impact on health-related quality of life. Treatment can be complex, involving multiple medical specialities. The aim of this study was to investigate psychological and self-management supp... Read More about Psychological and self-management support for people with vasculitis or connective tissue diseases: UK health professionals' perspectives.

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.

Shared decision-making in people with chronic disease: Integrating the biological, social and lived experiences is a key responsibility of nurses (2019)
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Ferreira, R. J., Santos, E. J., de Wit, M., Marques, A., Barbieri-Figueiredo, M. D. C., Marques, A., …Ndosi, M. (2020). Shared decision-making in people with chronic disease: Integrating the biological, social and lived experiences is a key responsibility of nurses. Musculoskeletal Care, 18(1), 84-91. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1443

'It can't be zero!' Difficulties in completing patient global assessment in rheumatoid arthritis: a mixed methods study (2019)
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Ferreira, R. J. O., de Wit, M., Henriques, M., Pinto, A. F., Duarte, C., Mateus, E., …Ndosi, M. (2020). 'It can't be zero!' Difficulties in completing patient global assessment in rheumatoid arthritis: a mixed methods study. Rheumatology, 59(5), 1137-1147. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/kez467

OBJECTIVES: Patient global assessment (PGA) is purported to add the patient's perspective in the composite measures of RA. However, PGA is not standardized and it is not known whether patients' interpretation of the measure is consistent with its int... Read More about 'It can't be zero!' Difficulties in completing patient global assessment in rheumatoid arthritis: a mixed methods study.

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.