Nurses Can Fill the Screening Gap in RA By Nancy Walsh, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: June 18, 2013 Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner Action Points Note that this study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal. A nurse-led program of screening for comorbidities among patients with rheumatoid arthritis resulted in a doubling of the number of diagnostic and therapeutic actions taken over a 6-month period. Note that the study confirmed that a nurse-led program of comorbidity screening is feasible but is time consuming and could represent a significant contribution for nurses in the overall health of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. MADRID -- A nurse-led program of screening for comorbidities among patients with rheumatoid arthritis resulted in a doubling of the number of diagnostic and therapeutic actions taken over a 6-month period, a researcher reported here. In a French study that included almost 1,000 patients, those randomized to the screening intervention had a mean of 4.54 actions such as lipid measurements and pneumococcal vaccinations, compared with 2.65 actions among controls (P
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