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Evidenced-based Medicine or Easy-bake Oven: Tension Between Evidence and Reality
This post was inspired by the article Patient Advocates: Flies in the Ointment of Evidenced Based Care by Jessie Gruman at Health Affairs Blog. Patient advocacy and evidenced-based medicine are both...
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Can We Find Similarities with Rheumatoid Arthritis?
Very often with Rheumatoid Arthritis, we emphasize our differences. It helps the newly diagnosed to get over the shock of living with a new symptom every day. It helps explain a fickle disease that is...
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A Paradigm Shift in Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity? Part 3
In Part 1, we pointed out that patients and clinicians look at Rheumatoid Arthritis disease activity in different ways. Rheumatologists especially focus on joints, and actually particular kinds of...
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The HAQ’s, the RAPID’s & the Rest: 3 Reasons It’s a Moot Point
So often when I’m listening to a scientific presentation about clinical care for Rheumatoid Arthritis, I would do the face-palm head-smack, if my shoulder would let me. Depending on who can hear me, I...
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Red Feet, Frankenstorm, Unexpected Sympathy, and Travel to PCORI Workshop...
Tiger and I left home for the PCORI conference today in D.C. in spite of the fact that many in the D.C. are evacuating from the area! Schools were closed on the Space Coast due to Hurricane Sandy,...
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PCORI – Creating a Culture for Patient-Centered Research
This weekend I attended a PCORI workshop called Transforming Patient-Centered Research: Building Partnerships and Promising Models. I’ve watched some PCORI meetings in the past since they use live...
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