AB0192 Some of The Painful RA Patients Underrate Global Health VAS at Hospitals
BackgroundEvaluating patient global VAS is one of the most essential process in RA practice. Despite reliability of patient global VAS being highly important in clinical practice, there has been no study comparing global VAS scores obtained at hospitals and those obtained at home where patients answ...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Annals of the rheumatic diseases 2016-06, Vol.75 (Suppl 2), p.963-963 |
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Zusammenfassung: | BackgroundEvaluating patient global VAS is one of the most essential process in RA practice. Despite reliability of patient global VAS being highly important in clinical practice, there has been no study comparing global VAS scores obtained at hospitals and those obtained at home where patients answer anonymously.ObjectivesTo compare the patient global VAS obtained before clinical examination in hospital with those answered anonymously at home.MethodsWe asked RA patients to answer and mail the EQ5D data set anonymously. EQ5D consisted of 5 component questions (mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, anxiety/depression) and patient assessment global health VAS. EQ5D global VAS is anonymized patient global VAS evaluated at home. We compared the patient global VAS which is routinely surveyed at hospital before clinical examination with those surveyed anonymously at home.ResultsThe anonymized VAS score was higher than those routinely evaluated at hospital (p |
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ISSN: | 0003-4967 1468-2060 |
DOI: | 10.1136/annrheumdis-2016-eular.1312 |