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Official Journal of the American College of Rheumatology

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

The Experience of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Admitted to Hospital

Julie Edwards, Diarmuid Mulherin, Sarah Ryan, and Rebecca Jester 1

Involvement and Satisfaction: A Norwegian Study of Health Care Among 1,024 Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis and 1,509 Patients With Chronic Noninflammatory Musculoskeletal Pain

Mette Brekke, Per Hjortdahl, and Tore K. Kvien 8

Rheumatologists’ Performance in Daily Practice

Simone Gorter, Sjef van der Linden, Jolanda Brauer, Désirée van der Heijde, Harry Houben, Jan-Joost Rethans, Albert Scherpbier, Cees van der Vleuten, Annelies Boonen, Huib Dinant, Henk Goei Thè, Ed Griep, Irene van der Horst-Bruinsma, Annelies Linssen, Marijke van Santen-Hoeufft, Hille van der Tempel, and Toon Westgeest 16

The Need for Comprehensive Educational Osteoporosis Prevention Programs for Young Women: Results From a Second Osteoporosis Prevention Survey

Mark J. Kasper, Margaret G. E. Peterson, and John P. Allegrante 28

Kinematic Approach to Gait Analysis in Patients with Rheumatoid ArthritisInvolving the Knee Joint

Michihiro Sakauchi, Katsuhiko Narushima, Hirohito Sone, Yutaka Kamimaki, Yuichiro Yamazaki, Shinjiro Kato, Takashi Takita, Norihiro Suzuki, and Kimio Moro 35

Effects of Pool-Based and Land-Based Aerobic Exercise on Women with Fibromyalgia/Chronic Widespread Muscle Pain

Eva Saltskår Jentoft, Anne Grimstvedt Kvalvik, and Anne Marit Mengshoel 42

Coping Strategies, Pain, and Disability in Patients With Hemophilia and Related Disorders

Nina Santavirta, Hjördis Björvell, Svetlana Solovieva, Hannu Alaranta, Kari Hurskainen, and Yrjö T. Konttinen 48

Responsiveness of Observational and Self-Report Methods for Assessing Disability in Mobility in Patients With Osteoarthritis

Martijn P. Steultjens, Leo D. Roorda, Joost Dekker, and Jonannes W. J. Bijlsma 56

The Motor Dysfunction of Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis in a Chinese Population

Gladys L. Y. Cheing and Christina W. Y. Hui-Chan 62

Effects of a Coping Intervention on Patients With Rheumatic Diseases: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

Manon Savelkoul, Luc P. de Witte, Math J. J. M. Candel, Hille van der Tempel, and Bart van den Borne 69

CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE FIELD

The Perils and Pitfalls of Comparing UK and US Samples of People Enrolled in an Arthritis Self-Management Program: The Case of the Center for Epidemiological Studies–Depression (CES-D) Scale

Julie H. Barlow, Chris C. Wright, and Kate Lorig 77

Do Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Patients Benefit From an Exercise Program? A Pilot Study

Tim Takken, Janjaap van der Net, and Paul J. M. Helders 81

REVIEW ARTICLES

Nonstandard and Adjunctive Medical Therapies for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Robert W. McMurray 86

Physiology of Cytokine Pathways in Rheumatoid Arthritis

William P. Arend 101

LETTERS

Glucosamine and Chondroitin for Osteoarthritis

Hideto Akama and Seiji Saito 107

On the History of Eponymic Idiopathic Vasculitis: Comment on the Article by Matteson

Ulises Mercado 108

Reply

Eric L. Matteson 108

Announcements 14A

Cover illustration: "Anterior Aspect of the Bones of the Human Body Articulated Together" from volume 1 of De Humani Corporis Fabrica (7 volumes, 1543) by Andreas Vesalius (Andries van Wesel, 1514–1564). Born in Brussels, the son of a prominent apothecary, Vesalius studied medicine at the University of Paris and the University of Padua, where he obtained the MD degree in 1537. While practicing in Padua he published his monumental work on anatomy, based on the dissection of human cadavers. The Fabrica was the most extensive and accurate treatise on the structure of the human body up to that time and is regarded as the cornerstone of modern anatomical science. Vesalius considered the skeleton as the foundation for the study of anatomy and is known to have prepared several articulated specimens for use in his lectures. In 1543 he was appointed physician to the household of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in Madrid. He is reported to have died during a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1564. The artist who executed this superb woodcut is unknown but was almost certainly a student of Titian, whose studio was in nearby Venice, and could have been Titian himself. The work may have been based on Vesalius’ own drawings—he was himself an accomplished draftsman—or on one of his mounted specimens.