2021 Volume 33 Issue 2 Pages 165-169
The role of nurses in rheumatoid arthritis treatment is increasing in various situations, and becoming more important year after year. At this hospital, RA care nurses perform joint echography and collect various information about patients’ precise symptoms and medication status which patients have not informed doctors.
These efforts by the care nurses also have reduced the workload of the doctors. In our experience, 73% of the patients who had achieved DAS28（CRP）and SDAI remission were found to have increased scores by grey scale（GS）and power doppler（PD）echography in both wrists and toes. It was thought to be necessary to check not only the composite measures like DAS28 or SDAI but also joint echography over time in the clinical course.
