Minority women with arthritis-related knee pain and their healthcare providers found additional information on medical care costs and the impact treatment might have on quality of life and work productivity to be useful.
Improvements in pain in older adults with arthritis may not be associated with improvements in 2 of 3 domains of disability.
Researchers posit that improvement of health related quality of life should be an objectives of treatment of early arthritis and early inflammatory back pain, but their finding is that disease only explains part of the assessment of quality of life.
Corticosteroids may increase the percentage of patients without pain and the percentage of patients with normal function of the affected joint at 12 months.
Patient-centered recommendations released by the European League Against Rheumatism
The percentage of patients with septic arthritis related to opioid or injection drug use was found to have increased from 2000 to 2013.
EULAR has released recommendations to enable health professionals to provide knowledgeable pain management support for patients with inflammatory arthritis and osteoarthritis.
Addition of an interspace between the popliteal artery and capsule of the posterior knee block and adductor canal block to periarticular injection is associated with less pain after total knee arthroplasty.
The PALACE 4 trial found that apremilast monotherapy improved symptoms and was generally well-tolerated in DMARD-naive psoriatic arthritis.
The results of 2 randomized controlled trials showed that filgotinib improved quality of life when given in combination with methotrexate or as monotherapy in rheumatoid arthritis.
