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Official Journal of the American College of Rheumatology
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Biopsychosocial Mediators and Moderators of Stress-Health Relationships in Patients With Recently Diagnosed Rheumatoid Arthritis
J. Caroline Dekkers, Rinie Geenen, Andrea W. M. Evers, Floor W. Kraaimaat, Johannes W. J. Bijlsma, and Guido L. R. Godaert 307
Development of an Instrument to Measure Pain in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain Scale (RAPS)
Diana L. Anderson 317
Health Care Utilization Among Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Referred to a Rheumatology Center: Unequal Needs, Unequal Care?
Catharina E. Jacobi, Mattanja Triemstra, Ines Rupp, Huibert J. Dinant, and Geertrudis A. M. Van Den Bos 324
Modifiers of Change in Physical Functioning in Older Adults With Knee Pain: The Observational Arthritis Study in Seniors (OASIS)
Michael E. Miller, W. Jack Rejeski, Stephen P. Messier, and Richard F. Loeser 331
Variation in Perceptions of Treatment and Self-Care Practices in Elderly With Osteoarthritis: A Comparison Between African American and White Patients
Said A. Ibrahim, Laura A. Siminoff, Christopher J. Burant, and C. Kent Kwoh 340
Esophageal Involvement and Pulmonary Manifestations in Systemic Sclerosis
Isabelle Marie, Stephane Dominique, Herve Levesque, Philippe Ducrotte, Philippe Denis, Marie-France Hellot, and Hubert Courtois 346
Pain and Pain Relief in Fibromyalgia Patients Followed for Three Years
Reino Poyhia, Deborah Da Costa, and Mary-Ann Fitzcharles 355
Psychosocial and Health Status Variables Independently Predict Health Care Seeking in Fibromyalgia
Brian C. Kersh, Laurence A. Bradley, Graciela S. Alarcon, Kristin R. Alberts, Adriana Sotolongo, Michelle Y. Martin, Leslie A. Aaron, Derek F. Dewaal, Marla L. Domino, William F. Chaplin, Nicole R. Palardy, Leanne R. Cianfrini, and Mireya Triana-Alexander 362
Rheumatology Patient and Physician Concordance With Respect to Important Health and Symptom Status Outcomes
C. Kent Kwoh and Said A. Ibrahim 372
Volunteers' Experiences of Becoming Arthritis Self-Management Lay Leaders: "It's Almost As If I've Stopped Aging and Started to Get Younger!"
Jenny Hainsworth and Julie Barlow 378
Smallest Detectable and Minimal Clinically Important Differences of Rehabilitation Intervention With Their Implications for Required Sample Sizes Using WOMAC and SF-36 Quality of Life Measurement Instruments in Patients With Osteoarthritis of the Lower Extremities
Felix Angst, Andre Aeschlimann, and Gerold Stucki 384
Physical and Exercise Therapy for Treatment of the Rheumatoid Hand
Amir I. Buljina, Mihra S. Taljanovic, Dijana M. Avdic, and Tim B. Hunter 392
Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Older Patients With Arthritis: A Population-Based Study
Peter J. Kaboli, Bradley N. Doebbeling, Kenneth G. Saag, and Gary E. Rosenthal 398
LETTER
Rapid Remission of Treatment-Resistant Ankylosing Spondylitis With Etanercept--A Drug for Refractory Ankylosing Spondylitis?
H. Richard Barthel 404
ANNOUNCEMENTS 7A
Cover illustration: The first clear description of rheumatoid arthritis was probably that published by Landre-Beauvais in 1800, who called it "la goutte asthenique primitive." This work was followed by others, including the famous French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893). In 1890, he presented a detailed account of the disease, describing characteristic physical findings of the hands and the fingers, including those that were later termed "swan neck" (deformations articulaires du premier type), and "Boutonniere" deformities (deformations articulaires du deuxieme type). He also provides other impressive drawings of rheumatoid deformities, degenerative arthritis, and gout in this volume. The figures presented on the cover of this issue of Arthritis Care & Research were reproduced from Oeuvres Competes de J. M. Charcot. Maladies des Vieillarads: Goutte et rhumatisme, Volume 7; Paris, Lecrosnier et Babe, 1890, page 593.
[Submitted by Eric L. Matteson, MD, MPH, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905]
