Dr Mwidimi Ndosi's Outputs (11)

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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© 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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© 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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Commentary - abstract not available.

Pain, fatigue and functional disability are associated with higher educational needs in systemic sclerosis: a cross-sectional study (2018)
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© 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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© 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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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.

The controversy of using PGA to define remission in RA (2018)
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Influence of the different “patient global assessment” formulations on disease activity score by different indices in rheumatoid arthritis (2018)
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© 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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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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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.

The impact of patient global assessment in the definition of remission as a predictor of long-term radiographic damage in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: protocol for an individual patient data meta-analysis (2018)
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BACKGROUND: Remission is the target for management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and intensification of immunosuppressive therapy is recommended for those that do not achieve this status. Patient global assessment (PGA) is the single patient reported... Read More about The impact of patient global assessment in the definition of remission as a predictor of long-term radiographic damage in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: protocol for an individual patient data meta-analysis.