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Standards of Care Survey

Have you used the ARMA Standards of Care in your work? If so, please tell us how!

As part of ARMA's ongoing review of the Standards project, we are mapping how the ARMA Standards of Care are being used across the country. We'd be grateful if you could complete the short questionnaire below to tell us how you have used the Standards.

ARMA Standards of Care Questionnaire (PDF version)

ARMA Standards of Care Questionnaire (Word version)

 

Implementation Work

With the Standards of Care for six condition areas now published, the process of promoting them and encouraging their implementation.

There are already enthusiastic teams and individuals doing great work up and down the country, and we continue to collect examples of good practice. ARMA has also developed audit tools for the Standards of care for people with inflammatory arthritis, osteoarthritis and back pain.

If you would like more information about any of these projects, please contact Gillian Econopouly, e-mail: geconopouly@rheumatology.org.uk

 

The following are some of the published guidelines available.

BSR

BSR Guidelines web page

Government Health Policy

National Service Framework on Long Term Conditions
Supporting People With Long Term Conditions

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network

Guideline 48: Management of Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
Guideline 56: Prevention and Management of Hip Fracture in Older People
Guideline 71: Management of Osteoporosis

National Institute for Clinical Excellence

National Standards, Local Action: Health and Social Care Standards and Planning Framework

Technology Appraisals
Hip disease - replacement prostheses (No. 2)
Knee joints (defective) - autologous cartilage transplantation (No. 16)
Osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis - cox II inhibitors (No. 27)
Arthritis (juvenile idiopathic) - etanercept (No. 35)
Rheumatoid arthritis - etanercept and infliximab (No. 36)
Hip disease - metal on metal hip resurfacing (No. 44)
Rheumatoid arthritis - anakinra (No. 72)

Interventional procedures
Autologous chondrocyte implantation of femoral condyle
Endoscopic laser foraminoplasty
Percutaneous intradiscal electrothermal therapy
Laser lumbar discectomy
Percutaneous vertebroplasty
Endoscopic division of epidural adhesions
Prosthetic intervertebral disc replacement
Minimally invasive placement of pectus bar
Extra-corporeal shockwave lithotripsy for calcific tendonitis (teninopathy) of the shoulder
Percutaneous endoscopic laser thoracic discectomy
Balloon kyphoplasty for vertebral compression fractures
Percutaneous intradiscal radiofrequency thermocoagulation
Needle fasciotomy for Dupuytren's contracture
Computed tomography (CT) guided thermocoagulation of osteoid osteoma

Technology Appraisals in development
Cartilage injury - autologous cartilage transplantation (ACT) (review)
Osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis - cox-II inhibitors (review)
Osteoporosis - primary prevention
Ankylosing spondylitis - adalimumab, etanercept and infliximab
Systemic lupus erythematosus - prasterone
Osteoporosis - secondary prevention
Rheumatoid arthritis - adalimumab, etanercept and infliximab
Osteoporosis - strontium ranelate

Clinical guidelines in development
Osteoporosis
Osteoarthritis

Interventional procedures in development
Artificial metacarpophalangeal and interphalangeal joint replacement for end-stage arthritis
Percutaneous disc decompression using coblation for lower back pain
Prosthetic intervertebral disc replacement for the cervical spine
Minimally invasive two-incision surgery for hip replacement
Mini-incision surgery for total knee replacement
Interspinous implants for spinal stenosis
Artificial trapeziometacarpal (TMC) joint replacement for osteoarthritis
Automated percutaneous mechanical lumbar discectomy
Preservation surgery of articular cartilage for hip impingement
Extracorporeal shock wave therapy for refractory tendinopathy
Metatarsal phalangeal joint replacement

 



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