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Volume 9, No. 5 - October 1996

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Official Journal of the American College of Rheumatology

COMMENTARY

Documenting Quality Management in Rheumatic Disease: Are Patient Questionnaires the Best (and Only) Method?

Theodore Pincus 339

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Reducing Work Disability Associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Identification of Additional Risk Factors and Persons Likely to Benefit from Intervention

Saralynn H. Allaire, Jennifer J. Anderson, and Robert F. Meenan 349

The Structure of an Instrument for Assessing the Effects of Assistive Devices and Altered Working Methods in Women with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Ulla Nordenskiöld, Gunnar Grimby, Marita Hedberg, Benjamin Wright, and John Michael Linacre 358

A Biopsychosocial Model of Disability in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Karen Schoenfeld-Smith, Gregory F. Petroski, John E. Hewett, Jane C. Johnson, Gail E. Wright, Karen L. Smarr, Sara E. Walker, and Jerry C. Parker 368

Back Pain in Osteoarthritis of the Knee

Frederick Wolfe, Donna J. Hawley, Paul M. Peloso, Kristen Wilson, and Janice Anderson 376

Gender and Ethnic Differences in Alternative and Conventional Arthritis Remedy Use Among Community-Dwelling Rural Adults with Arthritis

Thomas A. Arcury, Shulamit L. Bernard, Joanne M. Jordan, and Harold L. Cook 384

Health Outcome Improvements in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Using Two Telephone Counseling Interventions

Janet S. Austin, Richard S. Maisiak, David M. Macrina, and Louis W. Heck 391

CONTRIBUTION FROM THE FIELD

Is Consent to Participate in Research Voluntary?

Sarah E. Hewlett 400

REVIEW

Clinical Quality Management: Putting the Pieces Together

Gerold Stucki and Oliver Sangha 405

METHODS

Is It a Risk Factor or Confounder? A Discussion of Selected Analytic Methods Using Education as an Example

Marian T. Hannan 413

ANNOUNCEMENTS 419