EULAR recommendations for intra-articular therapies

Autor: Mikael Boesen, Hemant Pandit, Raul Castellanos-Moreira, Terence W O'Neill, V. Vardanyan, Loreto Carmona, Esperanza Naredo, Francis Berenbaum, Sebastian C. Rodriguez-García, Irene A Pitsillidou, Maria Antonietta D'Agostino, Jenny de la Torre-Aboki, W. U. Kampen, Lene Terslev, Jacqueline Uson, Ingrid Möller Parera, Elena Nikiphorou, Michael Doherty
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: ANNALS OF THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES
r-ISABIAL. Repositorio Institucional de Producción Científica del Instituto de Investigación Biomédica y Sanitaria de Alicante
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Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
Uson, J, Rodriguez-Garciá, S C, Castellanos-Moreira, R, O'Neill, T W, Doherty, M, Boesen, M, Pandit, H, Möller Parera, I, Vardanyan, V, Terslev, L, Kampen, W U, D'Agostino, M A, Berenbaum, F, Nikiphorou, E, Pitsillidou, I A, De La Torre-Aboki, J, Carmona, L & Naredo, E 2021, ' EULAR recommendations for intra-articular therapies ', Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, vol. 80, no. 10, pp. 1299-1305 . https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-220266
ISSN: 1468-2060
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Popis: ObjectivesTo establish evidence-based recommendations to guide health professionals using intra-articular therapies (IAT) in adult patients with peripheral arthropathies.MethodsA multidisciplinary international task force established the objectives, users and scope and the need for background information, including systematic literature reviews) and two surveys addressed to healthcare providers and patients throughout Europe. The evidence was discussed in a face-to-face meeting, recommendations were formulated and subsequently voted for anonymously in a three-round Delphi process to obtain the final agreement. The level of evidence was assigned to each recommendation with the Oxford levels of evidence.ResultsRecommendations focus on practical aspects to guide health professionals before, during and after IAT in adult patients with peripheral arthropathies. Five overarching principles and 11 recommendations were established, addressing issues related to patient information, procedure and setting, accuracy, routine and special aseptic care, safety issues and precautions to be addressed in special populations, efficacy and safety of repeated joint injections, use of local anaesthetics and aftercare.ConclusionWe have developed the first evidence and expert opinion-based recommendations to guide health professionals using IAT. We hope that these recommendations will be included in different educational programmes, used by patient associations and put into practice via scientific societies to help improve uniformity and quality of care when performing IAT in peripheral adult joints.
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