Your new post is loading...
The disease activities of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) tend to fluctuate between visits to doctors, and a self-assessment tool can help patients accommodate to their current status at home.
The aim of the present study was to develop a novel modality to assess the disease activity of RA by a smartphone without the need to visit a doctor. Subjects and Methods: This study included 65 patients with RA, 63.1±11.9 years of age. The 28-joint disease activity score (DAS28) was measured for all participants at each clinic visit.
The patients assessed their status with the modified Health Assessment Questionnaire (mHAQ), a self-assessed tender joint count (sTJC), and a self-assessed swollen joint count (sSJC) in a smartphone application. The patients' trunk acceleration while walking was also measured with a smartphone application. The peak frequency, autocorrelation (AC) peak, and coefficient of variance of the acceleration peak intervals were calculated as the gait parameters
.
Read the summarized results at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24404820
Via nrip
