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ReviewArthritis research & therapy2020

Assessing structural damage progression in psoriatic arthritis and its role as an outcome in research.

Désirée van der Heijde, Dafna D Gladman, Arthur Kavanaugh, Philip J Mease

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Review in Arthritis research & therapy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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32citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Désirée van der HeijdeDepartment of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, 2333, ZA, Leiden, the Netherlands. mail@dvanderheijde.nl.ORCID 0000-0002-5781-158X
Dafna D GladmanKrembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital and University of Toronto, 60 Leonard Ave, Toronto, ON, M5T 0S8, Canada.
Arthur KavanaughDivision of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, UC San Diego School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
Philip J MeaseSwedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health and University of Washington, 601 Broadway Suite 600, Seattle, WA, 98122, USA.
Leiden University Medical Center · NLUniversity of California San Diego · USUniversity of Toronto · CAUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is an immune-mediated, clinically heterogeneous disease characterized by arthritis, enthesitis, dactylitis, spondylitis, and psoriasis of the skin and nails. Persistent articular inflammation in patients with PsA can lead to structural damage, which can result in reduced physical function and quality of life. Structural damage can occur rapidly, and irreversible joint damage may be observed if patients are not treated promptly and appropriately. Therefore, evaluating therapeutic agents for their ability to inhibit structural progression has become increasingly important, with radiographic progression becoming a key efficacy outcome in clinical trials in PsA. Here, we review how structural damage and progression are assessed in clinical trials and the use of radiographic progression as a study outcome. We also discuss possible limitations in the current assessment of radiographic progression as well as areas of research that may improve the assessment of structural damage in clinical trials of PsA.

Indexed as

Outcome Assessment, Health CareArthritis, PsoriaticDisease ProgressionHumansRadiographyBiologic agentsPeripheral arthritisPsA radiographic scoring systemsPsoriatic arthritisStructural damage

Identifiers

PMID32014044
PMCPMC6998345
OpenAlexW3007042714

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