Rehabilitation for rheumatoid arthritis patients. A controlled trial.
For 1 year we obtained questionnaire and clinical measures from 2 cohorts of rheumatoid arthritis patients: 49 experimental patients who were admitted for an average of 13 days to a university-based rheumatology rehabilitation unit, and 43 control patients who received care from rheumatologists associated with another teaching hospital. At 1 year, after controlling for groups differences, the experimental patients demonstrated significant (P less than 0.05) improvement compared with control patients in several functional status, mental health, and disease activity measures.
D000368:Aged; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011446:Prospective Studies