Better Interaction And Education Between Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients And Care Providers Needed, New Study Indicates

UCB announced today findings from large-scale rheumatoid arthritis (RA) surveys collectively called the DESIGN study that showed patients rating themselves as having substantially less knowledge of RA therapies than their physicians and nurses believed. The survey also showed disagreement between physicians and nurses over who should be charged with patient education, as well a high level of patient dissatisfaction with the level of pain they suffer from RA.