Objective: Pain in hand osteoarthritis (OA) is evaluated with repeated pain questionnaires. It is unclear whether these questionnaires adequately capture changes in pain recalled by patients. This study investigated whether changes on pain questionnaires (real-time evaluation) correspond to recalled pain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: We aimed to characterize hand osteoarthritis (OA) patients with deteriorating or improving hand pain, and to investigate patients achieving good clinical outcome after four years.
Methods: We used four year annual Australian/Canadian hand osteoarthritis index (AUSCAN) pain subscale (range 0-20) measurements from the HOSTAS cohort (hand OA patients). Pain changes were categorized as deterioration, stable and improvement using the Minimal Clinical Important Improvement (MCII).
Objectives: To investigate the course of restrictions in paid and unpaid work and corresponding societal costs in patients with hand osteoarthritis (OA).
Methods: Patients with data of at least baseline and one follow-up moment (year one up to year eight) of the Dutch Hand OSTeoArthritis in Secondary care cohort (HOSTAS) were included. The Health and Labour Questionnaire was used to assess over the last two weeks hand OA-related restrictions for paid and unpaid work.
Objective: To investigate whether structural hand OA or its progression is associated with structural knee OA progression after two years in a population with symptomatic knee OA.
Methods: We used baseline and two-year follow-up data from the IMI-APPROACH cohort. Symptomatic hand and knee OA were defined using ACR criteria.
Objectives: The objective of this study is to develop classification criteria for overall hand osteoarthritis (OA), interphalangeal OA and thumb base OA based on self-reported data and radiographic features.
Methods: The classification criteria sets were developed in three phases. In phase 1, we identified criteria that discriminated hand OA from controls.