Rheumatoid Arthritis Annual Review Clinic Evaluation
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Understanding the role of an annual review clinic for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
IRAS ID
170210
Contact name
Samantha L Hider
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Keele University
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 9 months, 1 days
Research summary
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the commonest inflammatory arthritis affecting 1% of adults. Patients with RA are at an increased risk of other conditions such as heart disease and depression. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommends that patients with RA are offered an annual review for both review of their RA and for the development of comorbidities, such as heart disease, osteoporosis and depression.
Currently we do not have a formal annual review service for our RA patients at the Haywood Rheumatology Centre and have obtained charitable funding from the Haywood foundation to pilot a nurse-led annual review service. The service is designed to be implementable in routine clinical practice and will include data collected from a patient completed questionnaire prior to nurse led consultation.
The proposed research study will occur in two parts. The first part of this study will be to evaluate the clinical data collected as part of the annual review service. Although the collection of much of this data would be considered good clinical practice, to enable appropriate evaluation of the needs of our patient population formal ethical review for this part of the study is being sought.
The second part of the study will be to undertake a nested qualitative interview study with patients attending the annual review clinic to understand (1) patient perspectives on the annual review service and (2) specifically the impact of low mood in RA.REC name
West of Scotland REC 3
REC reference
15/WS/0063
Date of REC Opinion
2 Apr 2015
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion