Racial disparities in pre-operative pain, function and disease activity for patients with rheumatoid arthritis undergoing Total knee or Total hip Arthroplasty: a New York based study.
J HirschB MehtaJ FinikI Navarro-MillanC BrantnerS MirzaM FiggieM ParksL RussellD OrangeSusan M GoodmanPublished in: BMC rheumatology (2020)
For Black and/or Hispanic patients with RA undergoing THA or TKA at a high-volume specialty hospital, unlike Black or Hispanic patients with osteoarthritis (OA), there was no association with worse pain, function, or RA disease activity at the time of elective arthroplasty.
Keyphrases
- disease activity
- rheumatoid arthritis
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- rheumatoid arthritis patients
- chronic pain
- ankylosing spondylitis
- total hip arthroplasty
- total knee arthroplasty
- african american
- knee osteoarthritis
- pain management
- juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- neuropathic pain
- healthcare
- patients undergoing
- interstitial lung disease
- spinal cord injury
- acute care
- electronic health record