With consultation of Dr. Bonita Stanton, Consulting Editor, Drs. Li and Higgins have secured experts in the field to provide clinical reviews on the latest updates in diagnosing and treating children with rheumatologic disease. The issue contains articles on the following topics: Approach to the Child with Joint Pain; What goes wrong that Leads to Rheumatic Disease; Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis; Spondyloarthropathies; Systemic Arthritis; Systemic Lupus Erythematosus; Sjogren’s and Mixed CTD in Children and Adolescents; Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies in Children; Juvenile Scleroderma; Chronic Non-Infectious Osteomyelitis and Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis; Non-Inflammatory Musculoskeletal Pain in Children or Pediatric Pain Syndromes; Complications of Immunosuppressive and Biologic Response Modifier Therapy; General Health Concerns and Fitness for the Child with Rheumatic Disease; Transition of Rheumatic Disease Care: Pediatric to Adult Care; and Advocacy for Children with Rheumatic Diseases. Readers will be able to utilize the information in the issue to improve outcomes in patients with rheumatologic disease.
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Professionals in these settings will want to assess for depression and anxiety in children and adolescents during this continued pandemic. Standardized, empirically based mental health screening measures can quickly identify those in ...
Katz P, Pedro S, Alemao E, et al. Estimates of responsiveness, minimally important differences, and patient acceptable symptom state in five patient-reported outcomes measurement information system short forms in systemic lupus ...
Beyond potential patient-related health care cost savings, there are potential cost savings linked to health services use for ... Impact of family presence during pediatric intensive care unit rounds on the family and medical team.
Laura E Schanberg, MD, Yukiko Kimura, MD. outcomes. For example, in one small mixed methods study of youth with cSLE or mixed connective tissue disease, there was an association between lower socioeconomic status and both poor ...
Respiratory Complications of Pediatric Neuromuscular Diseases John R. Bach, MD a,*, Nelson L. Turcios, MD b, Liping Wang, ... workload (stiffness of the chest wall, obstruction a b c Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, ...
Understanding Fibromyalgia 2020 Carrie Schreibman, MSN, FNP KEYWORDS Fibromyalgia Fatigue Nonrestorative sleep ... outcomes: patient education, physical therapy, occupational therapy, psychotherapy, complimentary alternative medicine, ...
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The role of a “treat-to-target” approach in the longterm renal outcomes of patients with gout. ... American College of Rheumatology Recommended Patient-Reported Functional Status Assessment Measures in Rheumatoid Arthritis.
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