Integrated Care Approach for Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)

Treatments: Other: CM-TCM

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06791980

B11204006

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to learn about the long-term effects of integrated care approach in persons over the age of 20 who take part in integrated care approach to treat their rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The main question is to explore whether adding the integrated care approach into routine care can lower pro-inflammatory cytokines and depressive symptom in RA persons over age 20 when taken long-term to treat RA?

Enrollment: 120 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

age of at least 20 years; willingness to participate in the survey; having the physician-diagnosed RA with the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification code of 714.0

Exclusion criteria

• having physician-based diagnosis of cognitive impairment and with the ability to express opinion

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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120 participants in 1 patient group

Routine care

Other group

Description:

This consisted of consultation about disease symptoms, related treatments, and conventional disease management.

Treatment:

Other: CM-TCM