THE BURDEN OF EARLY RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS ON HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE
Author(s)
Kosinski M1, Wanke LA2, Buatti MC3, 1QualityMetric, Inc., Lincoln, RI, USA; 2Immunex Corporation, Seattle, WA, USA; 3Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Generic measures of health status provide an important common denominator for comparing the burden of illness across diseases. OBJECTIVES: To document illness burden of early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) on health related quality of life (HQL). METHODS: The SF-36 Health Survey (SF-36) was self-administered by 632 participants of a double-blinded, randomized controlled clinical trial of three treatments for RA. The burden of early RA (
Conference/Value in Health Info
2000-05, ISPOR 2000, Arlington, VA, USA
Value in Health, Vol. 3, No. 2 (March/April 2000)
Code
PAR1
Topic
Patient-Centered Research
Topic Subcategory
Patient-reported Outcomes & Quality of Life Outcomes
Disease
Musculoskeletal Disorders