ArticleRheumatology advances in practice2021
Telemedicine in the management of rheumatoid arthritis: maintaining disease control with less health-care utilization.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.
- Clinical Visit Frequencies in Rheumatology: A Systematic Literature Review.Arthritis care & research · 2023Pooled it
- Engagement and attrition with eHealth tools for remote monitoring in chronic arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.RMD open · 2022Pooled it
- Adherence to Telemonitoring by Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Patients with Chronic Diseases: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Perspectives on and Experiences With Remote Monitoring and Patient-Initiated Care Among Norwegian Patients With Axial Spondyloarthritis: Qualitative Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Trial
- Smartphone-Assisted Patient-Initiated Care Versus Usual Care in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis and Low Disease Activity: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2022Trial
- Digitally-supported patient-centered asynchronous outpatient follow-up in rheumatoid arthritis - an explorative qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2022Trial
- An Intelligent Interactive Management Platform for Rheumatoid Arthritis Care: Real-World Observational Study.JMIR medical informatics · 2026Observational
- Engagement and retention with remote monitoring in psoriasis: Findings from the mySkin study.Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV · 2026Article
- Telehealth triage in pediatric rheumatology: a diagnostically accurate tool to improve access to care.Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany) · 2026Article
- Professional-Facing Digital Health Technology for the Care of Patients With Chronic Pain: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Remote monitoring of patients with rheumatoid arthritis in a low disease activity state: a mixed methods evaluation across six hospitals in London, UK.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2024Article
- Evidence for telemedicine heterogeneity in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases care: a scoping review.Clinical rheumatology · 2024Article
- Identification of Motivational Determinants for Telemedicine Use Among Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis in Germany: Secondary Analysis of Data From a Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Toward Telemonitoring in Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases: Protocol for a Mixed Attention Model Study.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People Living with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Experiences and Preferences in Accessing Healthcare Across Five Countries.Rheumatology and therapy · 2024Article
- Use of telemedicine to tackle health problems in South Asia during the COVID-19 era and beyond: a systematic review.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2024Review
- The Calm after the Storm: A State-of-the-Art Review about Recommendations Put Forward during the COVID-19 Pandemic to Improve Chronic Pain Management.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Predictors for response to electronic patient-reported outcomes in routine care in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a retrospective cohort study.Rheumatology international · 2023Article
- The Use of Digital Health Services Among Patients and Citizens Living at Home: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Telemedicine in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Review of the PubMed Literature.Mediterranean journal of rheumatology · 2023Review
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Abstract
objectivesWe aimed to evaluate the use of an eHealth platform and a self-management outpatient clinic in patients with RA in a real-world setting. The effects on health-care utilization and disease activity were studied.
methodsUsing hospital data of patients with RA between 2014 and 2019, the use of an eHealth platform and participation in a self-management outpatient clinic were studied. An interrupted time series analysis compared the period before and after the introduction of the eHealth platform. The change in trend (relative to the pre-interruption trend) for the number of outpatient clinic visits and the DAS for 28 joints (DAS28) were determined for several scenarios.
resultsAfter implementation of the platform in April 2017, the percentage of patients using it was stable at ∼37%. On average, the users of the platform were younger, more highly educated and had better health outcomes than the total RA population. After implementation of the platform, the mean number of quarterly outpatient clinic visits per patient decreased by 0.027 per quarter (95% CI: -0.045, -0.08,
conclusionThe implementation of remote patient monitoring has a positive effect on health-care utilization, while maintaining low disease activity. This should encourage the use of this type of telemedicine in the management of RA, especially while many routine outpatient clinic visits are cancelled owing to COVID-19.
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