Rheumatology

van der Heijde D, Dougados M, DeMuro-Mercon CJ, Melian A, Watson DJ. Validation of the ankylosing spondylitis quality of life questionnaire (ASQoL). Poster presented at the 67th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology; 2003.

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DiBenedetti DB, Zhou X, Reynolds ME, Ogale S, Best J. Assessing methotrexate compliance in rheumatoid arthritis. Presented at the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Annual European Congress of Rheumatology; June 2014.

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Williams VS, Smith MY, Fehnel SE. The validity and utility of bpi interference measures addressing the impact of pain. Poster presented at the Annual International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) Conference; November 2003.

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Nelson LM, McLeod LD, Mordin MM, Farr J, Cole BJ, Uddin S, Engelhart L. Psychometric evaluation of the Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) subscales for patients with articular cartilage lesions of the knee using pilot study data of the Cartilage Autograft Implantation System (CAIS). Poster presented at the 9th World Congress of the International Cartilage Repair Society; September 2010.

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Keenan A-M, McKenna SP, Doward LC, Conaghan PC, Emery P, Tennant A. OAQol: development and preliminary validation of a needs-based quality of life measure for osteoarthritis. Ann Rheum Dis. 2007;66:640.


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Keenan A-M, McKenna SP, Doward LC, Conaghan PC, Emery P, Tennant A. OAQoL: development and preliminary validation of a needs-based quality of life measure for osteoarthritis. Poster presented at the American College of Rheumatology 2007 Annual Scientific Meeting; April 2007. Chicago, IL. [abstract] Rheumatology. 2007; 46:162-3.


BACKGROUND: In recent years, there has been a growing interest in measuring quality of life (QoL) in people with osteoarthritis (OA). While several measures exist that evaluate pain and function, no tool currently exists to address the overall impact of OA on QoL. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a needs-based QoL measure for OA.

McKenna SP, Doward LC, Dewar AL. Assessing quality of life in osteoporosis clinical trials. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL); November 2001. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [abstract] Qual Life Res. 2001 Apr; 10(3):235.


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Wilburn J, McKenna S, Crawford SR, Perry-Hinsley D, Bayat A. Determining the true impact of dupuytren's disease: a qualitative study. Poster presented at the 2011 ISPOR 14th Annual European Congress; November 2011. Madrid, Spain. [abstract] Value Health. 2011 Nov; 14(7):A314-5.

OBJECTIVES: To explore the impact of Dupuytren’s Disease (DD) on patients’ quality of life (QoL) and identify implications for clinical practice. A search of the literature failed to identify a patient-reported outcome measure for assessing the impact of DD. The study was designed to be the first stage in the development of such a measure.

METHODS: The needs-based model of QoL was adopted and unstructured qualitative interviews were conducted with DD patients attending out-patients clinics.

Lübbeke A, Rothman KJ, Garavaglia G, Barea C, Christofilopoulos P, Stern R, Hoffmeyer P. Strong association between smoking and the risk of revision in a cohort study of patients with metal-on-metal total hip arthroplasty. J Orthop Res. 2014 Jun;32(6):762-8. doi: 10.1002/jor.22603

Thus far the ability to predict who will develop early failure following the insertion of a metal-on-metal (MoM) bearing has been very limited. Our objective was to assess the effect of smoking on failure rates in patients with MoM bearing, compared with patients with ceramic-on-polyethylene (CoP) bearing. From a prospective hospital-based registry we included all primary THAs operated upon between 1/2001 and 12/2011 with MoM or CoP bearings of the same cup design and head size (28?mm). We compared revision rates through 10/2013 classified by smoking status and type of bearing.

Neville C, Whalley D, McKenna SP, Le Comte M, Fortin PR. Adaptation and validation of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Quality of Life Scale for use in Canada. J Rheumatol. 2001 Jul 1;28(7):1505-10.


OBJECTIVE: The Rheumatoid Arthritis Quality of Life questionnaire (RAQoL) was developed simultaneously in the UK and the Netherlands to measure quality of life in patients with RA. We adapted and validated the RAQoL for the English-Canadian and French-Canadian languages and culture.

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