Survey self-report of rheumatoid arthritis and treatments versus specialist clinician confirmation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess agreement between patient survey report and physician recorded arthritic conditions and medication use in order to validate population-based epidemiologic approaches to auto-immune arthritic conditions.

Methods

Rheumatologists in the U.S. Appalachian region recruited men 50 years or older with a confirmed rheumatoid arthritis (RA) diagnosis. For each participating patient, the treating specialist completed a brief chart abstraction that included rheumatic diagnosis and corresponding treatment. Patients participated in a telephone interview using the same questionnaire as applied in a larger random digit dial survey that queried arthritis diagnosis and treatment. We assessed patient-clinician agreement with the Prevalence Adjusted and Biased Adjusted Kappa

SUBMITTER: Jugnundan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11462809 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature