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Ethics approval: Auckland Health Research Ethics Committee (AHREC), reference AH23039
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Aim: We are conducting an international Delphi survey of patients with CPPD and stakeholders (health-care professionals, governmental and non-governmental agencies and pharmaceutical representatives) to identify important outcome domains for future CPPD research.
Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) is an international organisation that seeks to standardise what is measured in studies. Although calcium pyrophosphate disease (CPPD) is common, it is poorly studied, and studies are varied in the ways they report results. In order for healthcare professionals to choose the best treatments for their patients they rely on studies to compare the effectiveness of new treatments with well-established treatments. Outcome domains (endpoints or results) are what to assess for a particular disease to determine whether a treatment is working. It is important to compare like with like wherever possible, one way to help is to encourage researchers to use a minimum ‘core set’ of assessments. It is important for this ‘core set’ of reported results to assess areas that are important to patients.
We aim to establish OMERACT core domain sets for short term (acute CPPD flare) and long-term CPPD studies (includes recurrent CPPD flares, chronic CPPD inflammatory arthritis and/or osteoarthritis with CPPD).
Recruitment of participants
Patients with CPPD and stakeholders (health-care professionals, governmental and non-governmental agencies and pharmaceutical representatives) are invited to participate in an online survey to rate the importance of a list of outcome domains.
There will be four surveys in total for this study each taking 20-30 minutes.
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Time-period of the research project: All rounds of the Delphi survey and analysis to be completed by the end of 2023.
Contact Details: For further information please contact Dr. Yiling Zhang
Project Title Attitudes of Healthcare Professionals and Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis towards Parenteral Use of Methotrexate in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients: A Qualitative Study.
CALHN Reference Number: 16084
Principal Investigators:
Parenteral MTX is a therapeutic option in patients with RA who have failed to respond adequately to oral MTX (alone or in combination with other DMARDs), but there are likely many barriers and enablers to its use – these barriers and enablers remain largely undefined, particularly within the context of the Australian healthcare system. As part of a broad body of work that is investigating methods to optimise therapeutic outcomes from MTX and DMARDs more generally, this study aims to determine attitudes of both patients and RA practitioners to parenteral MTX within the current Australian Healthcare system regulations, including PBS criteria.
Specifically, the aims of this study are:
Qualitative research with different study methods, whereby combination of both semi-structured one-on-one interviews and focus groups will be used.
Health Care Professional cohort The interviews and focus groups will be held face-to-face, over the telephone, or via video conferencing software (Zoom). Face-to face interviews and focus groups will be held at Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) or University of South Australia (UniSA). If face-to-face meetings are not possible, the interviews may be conducted via telephone or Zoom.
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient cohort The study will be conducted at CALHN.
If you are interested in taking part in this study please contact Jiun Ming Tan jiun_ming.tan@mymail.unisa.edu.au
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Multimodal MRI of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: a cross-sectional neuroimaging study towards its neuropathophysiology and diagnosis
To investigate hypotheses of