Quality assurance review of a rheumatoid arthritis education program.
Quality assurance seeks to measure the degree of compliance to set standards. To determine compliance to a treatment plan of rest, prescribed joint exercise, and medication; 31 rheumatoid arthritis patients were telephoned 3 months after attending a rheumatoid arthritis education program. On follow-up, more than half of the patients reported being compliant. Those that were non-compliant listed reasons related to the affective learning domain rather than lack of cognitive learning.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008910:Minnesota; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care