New treatment guidelines have been recommended by the American College of Rheumatology and National Psoriasis Foundation to provide care for psoriatic arthritis patients.
A new guideline recommendations have been developed for treatment of psoriatic arthritis and to provide care for these patients, revealed a new study. Authors of the new American College of Rheumatology (ACR) / National Psoriasis Foundation (NPF) treatment guideline for psoriatic arthritis (PsA) will present their draft recommendations during a session at the 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting this week in San Diego.
‘New guidelines include both pharmacological and non-pharmacological recommendations for treating active psoriatic arthritis.’
The guideline includes pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic recommendations for treating adult patients with active psoriatic arthritis.Both the ACR and NPF anticipate the guideline will play an important role in improving outcomes for individuals living with PsA.
The guideline development team used the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) methodology to develop the recommendations.
GRADE uses systematic reviews of the scientific literature available to evaluate and grade the quality of evidence in a particular domain.
The evidence reviews are then used to create guideline recommendations for or against particular therapy options that range from strong to conditional, depending on the quality of evidence available.
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Journalists in attendance will have the opportunity to interview:
- Jasvinder Singh, MD, MPH (Principal Investigator, Voting Panel Leader)
- Dafna D. Gladman, MD (Content Expert)
- Alexis Ogdie, MD, MSCE (Content Expert)
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Source-Eurekalert