Abstract
This book is about prognosis in the rheumatic diseases. By establishing what is currently known about the long-term outcomes of rheumatologic conditions and what is not, we hope that this volume will assist in the development of improved management plans and in the development of a long-range view of treatment. In addition, the high levels of chronic morbidity underscore the necessity for musculoskeletal disease to be emphasized in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, and in the planning of health care services. In spite of its key importance to patients, clinicians, hospital administrators, insurance agencies, central government, and the legal profession1, prognosis has been relatively neglected even in major textbooks of medicine and rheumatology 2,3. Possibly this is due to the complexity of prognosticating and the dynamic nature of disease, which may modify the original prognosis over time. Alternatively it may be because the term “prognosis” lacks adequate definition. It is not always clear what one does when one “gives a prognosis.”
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Fries, J.F., Bellamy, N. (1991). Introduction. In: Bellamy, N. (eds) Prognosis in the Rheumatic Diseases. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3896-3_1
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