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Scott, IC, Machin, A, Mallen, CD and Hider, SL (2018) The extra-articular impacts of rheumatoid arthritis: moving towards holistic care. BMC Rheumatology, 2. 32 - ?. ISSN 2520-1026
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Abstract
Although treat-to-target has revolutionised the outcomes of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) there is emerging evidence that attaining the target of remission is insufficient to normalise patients' quality of life, and ameliorate the extra-articular impacts of RA. RA has a broad range of effects on patient's lives, with four key "extra-articular" impacts being pain, depression and anxiety, fatigue and rheumatoid cachexia. All of these are seen frequently; for example, studies have reported that 1 in 4 patients with RA have high-levels of fatigue. Commonly used drug treatments (including simple analgesics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and anti-depressants) have, at most, only modest benefits and often cause adverse events. Psychological strategies and dynamic and aerobic exercise all reduce issues like pain and fatigue, although their effects are also only modest. The aetiologies of these extra-articular impacts are multifactorial, but share overlapping components. Consequently, patients are likely to benefit from management strategies that extend beyond the assessment and treatment of synovitis, and incorporate more broad-based, or "holistic", assessments of the extra-articular impacts of RA and their management, including non-pharmacological approaches. Innovative digital technologies (including tablet and smartphone "apps" that directly interface with hospital systems) are increasingly available that can directly capture patient-reported outcomes during and between clinic visits, and include them within electronic patient records. These are likely to play an important future role in delivering such approaches.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Rheumatoid arthritis; Pain; Fatigue; Mental health; Cachexia |
Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Primary, Community and Social Care |
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Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 25 Mar 2020 12:28 |
Last Modified: | 25 Mar 2020 12:28 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/7832 |