ArticleRheumatology (Oxford, England)2011
Use of conservative and surgical foot care in an inception cohort of patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
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- Interpreting outcome following foot surgery in people with rheumatoid arthritis.Journal of foot and ankle research · 2016Article
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- Provision of foot health services for people with rheumatoid arthritis in New South Wales: a web-based survey of local podiatrists.Journal of foot and ankle research · 2013Article
- "They just scraped off the calluses": a mixed methods exploration of foot care access and provision for people with rheumatoid arthritis in south-western Sydney, Australia.Journal of foot and ankle research · 2013Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo describe conservative and surgical foot care in patients with RA in England and explore factors that predict the type of foot care received.
methodsUse of podiatry and type of foot surgery were outcomes recorded in an inception cohort involving nine rheumatology centres that recruited patients with RA between 1986 and 1998 across England. Associations between patient-specific factors and service use were identified using univariate logistic regression analyses. The independence of these associations was then verified through multiple binary logistic regression modelling.
resultsData were collected on 1237 patients with RA [66.9% females, mean (s.d.) age at disease onset = 54.36 (14.18) years, median DAS = 4.09 (1st quartile = 3.04, 3rd quartile = 5.26), median HAQ = 1 (0.50, 1.63)]. Interventions involving the feet in the cohort were low with only 364 (30%) out of 1218 receiving podiatry and 47 (4%) out of 1237 patients having surgery. At baseline, female gender, increasing age at onset, being RF positive and higher DAS scores were each independently associated with increased odds of seeing a podiatrist. Gender, age of onset and baseline DAS were independently associated with the odds of having foot surgery.
conclusionsDespite the known high prevalence of foot pathologies in RA, only one-third of this cohort accessed podiatry. While older females were more likely to access podiatry care and younger patients surgery, the majority of the RA population did not access any foot care.
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