Measurement of Disease Activity in Ecuadorian Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Does RAPID3 Correlate with Traditional Indexes?

Objective. The aim of this study is to demonstrate if routine assessment of patient index data 3 has a correlation with disease’s activity as much as disease activity score 28, clinical disease activity index, and simplified disease activity index in Ecuadorian patients with rheumatoid arthritis see...

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Published in:TheScientificWorld 2019, Vol.2019 (2019), p.1-7
Main Authors: Luzuriaga, Adriana, Vanegas, Emanuel, Iglesias, Adriana, Zurita, María Fernanda, Zurita, Luis
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Analysis
Arthritis
Arthritis, Rheumatoid - diagnosis
Arthritis, Rheumatoid - epidemiology
Arthritis, Rheumatoid - therapy
Autoimmune diseases
Clinical medicine
Ecuador - epidemiology
Female
Health care facilities
Health risk assessment
Humans
Laboratories
Male
Measurement
Medical research
Medicine, Experimental
Middle Aged
Patients
Questionnaires
Remission Induction
Rheumatism
Rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatoid factor
Rheumatology
Severity of Illness Index
Statistical tests
Tofacitinib
Type 2 diabetes
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Summary:Objective. The aim of this study is to demonstrate if routine assessment of patient index data 3 has a correlation with disease’s activity as much as disease activity score 28, clinical disease activity index, and simplified disease activity index in Ecuadorian patients with rheumatoid arthritis seen in Unidad de Enfermedades Reumáticas y Autoinmunes [UNERA] from December 2016 to December 2017. Methods. This is a retrospective study in 200 patients that fulfill the American College of Rheumatology 2010 criteria for diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. The patients were evaluated from December 2016 to December 2017. Descriptive analyses were carried out, also Pearson correlation was used, and, to give a better clinical significance, a chi-square test was conducted. Whenever assumptions of chi-square test were violated, a Fisher’s exact test was reported. Results. RAPID3 correlated best with DAS28 (r.83, p < 0.001), followed by CDAI (r.80, p < 0.001) and then SDAI (r.77, p < 0.001). Conclusion. RAPID3 is a questionnaire that only takes 10 seconds to calculate and correlates in a significant way with traditional clinical measures that require more time to perform, saving time in busy health facilities.
ISSN:2356-6140
1537-744X
1537-744X
DOI:10.1155/2019/6940401