ArticleAnnals of the rheumatic diseases2021
EULAR Points to Consider (PtC) for designing, analysing and reporting of studies with work participation as an outcome domain in patients with inflammatory arthritis.
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- A general framework for selecting work participation outcomes in intervention studies among persons with health problems: a concept paper.BMC public health · 2022Pooled it
- Work participation in patients with systematic lupus erythematosus: a systematic review.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2022Pooled it
- The WORKWELL programme: a randomized controlled trial of job retention vocational rehabilitation for people with inflammatory arthritis.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2026Trial
- Sex and gender differences in rheumatology: clinical impact and future directions.Nature reviews. Rheumatology · 2026Review
- Severe impairments in work ability among patients with axSpA and PsA: results from the RABBIT-SpA Register.RMD open · 2026Article
- The Work Productivity and Activity Impairment (WPAI) questionnaire.Occupational medicine (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Occupational impacts of early inflammatory arthritis: results from the National Early Inflammatory Arthritis Audit.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2024Article
- The Work Experience Survey - Rheumatic conditions (United Kingdom): Psychometric properties and identifying the workplace barriers of employed people with inflammatory arthritis receiving vocational rehabilitation.Musculoskeletal care · 2023Article
- Employment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis - a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC rheumatology · 2023Article
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- Preferred Methods of Measuring Work Participation: An International Survey Among Trialists and Cochrane Systematic Reviewers.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Work participation is reduced during the development of RA, months before clinical arthritis manifests.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundClinical studies with work participation (WP) as an outcome domain pose particular methodological challenges that hamper interpretation, comparison between studies and meta-analyses.
objectivesTo develop Points to Consider (PtC) for design, analysis and reporting of studies of patients with inflammatory arthritis that include WP as a primary or secondary outcome domain.
methodsThe EULAR Standardised Operating Procedures were followed. A multidisciplinary taskforce with 22 experts including patients with rheumatic diseases, from 10 EULAR countries and Canada, identified methodologic areas of concern. Two systematic literature reviews (SLR) appraised the methodology across these areas. In parallel, two surveys among professional societies and experts outside the taskforce sought for additional methodological areas or existing conducting/reporting recommendations. The taskforce formulated the PtC after presentation of the SLRs and survey results, and discussion. Consensus was obtained through informal voting, with levels of agreement obtained anonymously.
resultsTwo overarching principles and nine PtC were formulated. The taskforce recommends to align the work-related study objective to the design, duration, and outcome domains/measurement instruments of the study (PtC: 1-3); to identify contextual factors upfront and account for them in analyses (PtC: 4); to account for interdependence of different work outcome domains and for changes in work status over time (PtC: 5-7); to present results as means as well as proportions of patients reaching predefined meaningful categories (PtC: 8) and to explicitly report volumes of productivity loss when costs are an outcome (PtC:9).
conclusionAdherence to these EULAR PtC will improve the methodological quality of studies evaluating WP.
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