Ankylosing Spondylitis
Save patient management costs and improve patient care by using Living With Ankylosing Spondylitis.
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Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a long-term condition in which the spine and other areas of the body become inflamed: more commonly referred to by the umbrella term Axial spondyloarthritis or axial SpA. There is no cure. There are 220,000 patients in the UK.
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Solution
Living With Ankylosing Spondylitis helps patients to track and self-manage their condition more effectively. What’s more, clinicians are able to monitor patient disease activity remotely and optimise their resources for tele-clinics and face-to-face consultations.
Features
- messaging
- patient and clinician enrolment
- file attachments
- goal tracking
- symptom tracking (general)
- medication tracking
- general outcomes: EQ5D-5L
- cross-condition outcome measures: PHQ8
- condition-specific outcome measures: Basdai
- fatigue diary and fatigue activity diary
- library of clinically-validated articles
Benefits
- enable asynchronous consultations
- stratify which patients to prioritise for treatment
- save patient management costs
- engage patients in their self-management
- maximise use of time in clinics by providing longitudinal patient data in an easy to appraise format – meaning clinic time can be problem focussed rather than having to recap disease activity since the last appointment
- improve patient understanding and engagement in their condition and treatment
- reduce unnecessary appointments
- facilitate and improve tele-clinic efficiency by providing improved granularity of patient data
- reduce flares by maintaining better control and understanding of their condition
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Results
For results on the efficacy of Living With’s rheumatology products head to the Evidence and Case Studies pages.