Optimisation of rheumatic disease assessments in clinical trials, clinical care, and long-term databases

摘要

The assessment of disease in rheumatological diseases is rather complicated, because it may involve different contexts (clinical practice, clinical trials, observational studies, registries, etc) as well as different domains (disease activity, physical function, radiographic damage, quality of life, etc). Furthermore, available tools can be comprehensive but also rather condense, may be patient-oriented or rather physician-oriented, and so on.