Use of conservative and surgical foot care in an inception cohort of patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe conservative and surgical foot care in patients with RA in England and explore factors that predict the type of foot care received.

Methods

Use of podiatry and type of foot surgery were outcomes recorded in an inception cohort involving nine rheumatology centres that recruited patients with RA between 1986 and 1998 across England. Associations between patient-specific factors and service use were identified using univariate logistic regression analyses. The independence of these associations was then verified through multiple binary logistic regression modelling.

Results

Data were collected on 1237 patients with RA [66.9% females, mean (s.d.) age at disease onset = 54.36 (14.18) years, median DAS = 4.09 (1st quartile = 3.04, 3rd quartile = 5.26)

SUBMITTER: Backhouse MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3157630 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature