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Arthritis Care & Research

Official Journal of the Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals

Vol. 13, No. 4, August 2000


EDITORIAL

179 Glucosamine and Chondroitin for Osteoarthritis: To Recommend or Not to Recommend?
David T. Felson and Timothy E. McAlindon

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

183 Ambulatory Care or Home-Based Treatment? An Economic Evaluation of Two Physiotherapy Delivery Options for People with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Linda C. Li, Peter C. Coyte, Sydney C. Lineker, Hazel Wood, and Mea Renahan

191 A Biomechanical Analysis of a Medial Unloading Brace for Osteoarthritis in the Knee
Brian P. Self, Richard M. Greenwald, and Daniel S. Pflaster

198 Sustained Improvement Produced by Nonpharmacologic Intervention in Fibromyalgia: Results of a Pilot Study
Paul Creamer, Betsy B. Singh, Marc C. Hochberg, and Brian M. Berman

205 Development and Initial Evaluation of a Culturally Sensitive Cholesterol-Lowering Diet Program for Mexican and African American Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Meena Shah, Yvonne Coyle, Arthur Kavanaugh, Beverley Adams-Huet, and Peter E. Lipsky

213 Medical Resource Use and Costs Among Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Receiving Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drug Therapy
Robert I. Griffiths, Miriam Bar-Din, Catherine H. MacLean, Erin M. Sullivan, Robert J. Herbert, and Edward H. Yelin

227 Development and Preliminary Validation of a Self-Efficacy Measure for Use Among Parents of Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
J. H. Barlow, K. L. Shaw, and C. C. Wright

REVIEW ARTICLES

37 Notes on the History of Eponymic Idiopathic Vasculitis: The Diseases of Henoch and Schönlein, Wegener, Churg and Strauss, Horton, Takayasu, Behçet, and Kawasaki
Eric L. Matteson

LETTERS

246 The Diagnosis of Crystal-Induced Arthritis: Comment on the Article by Segal and Albert
Paul Dieppe, Angela Swan, and Hanya Amer

247 Reply

Jodi Segal and Daniel Albert

248 ANNOUNCEMENTS