Databases in routine care: possible and necessary
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Databases in routine care: possible and necessary
Bull NYU Hosp Jt Dis.
2007.
Abstract
Patient questionnaires are valuable quantitative tools used by rheumatologists to monitor a patient's health status and response to therapy. The health assessment questionnaire (HAQ) and its derivatives have been shown to be the most significant predictors of functional and work disability, costs, joint replacement surgery, and mortality and, generally, at higher levels of significance than joint counts, radiographs, and laboratory tests. Yet, patient questionnaires, which can be used in all rheumatic diseases, are not included in routine care by most rheumatologists. Data that are feasible to collect during clinical care provide the optimal approach to quantitatively assess how patients are doing.
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