Assessment of Physician Consideration of Electronic Patient Reported Outcomes, from Patients with Gout, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sjogren's Syndrome or Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, on the Frequency of Therapeutic Adjustments
Inflammatory rheumatic diseases affect 1% of the population. Treatment of such diseases should be based on disease activity, safety issues and other patient characteristics such as comorbidities (EULAR, 2022), leading to a higher risk of cardiovascular diseases. To this end, the general treat-to-target approach, as recommended in the EULAR guidance, may require several successive treatment lines based on updates to the patients' profile and close monitoring as the keystone of its implementation. Regular feedback from patients could be used to fuel such strategies. This feedback can be collected using an ePRO (electronic Patient Reported Outcome). The purpose of this study is therefore to assess patient management using the information provided by patients through e-PROs, which will transfer the data provided by the patient to the physician and will notify the investigators via email when a patient has completed a form (no data interpretation or alerts). The hypothesis is that the more physicians are provided with insights into their patients' health, the more they will function in a treat-to-target approach and the more often they will tend to adjust their patients' treatments.
• Men or women of at least 18 years of age
• Diagnosed with (at least) one of the following autoimmune diseases:
‣ Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) according to the 2010 EULAR/ACR classification criteria,
⁃ Gout according to the 2015 EULAR/ACR classification criteria,
⁃ Systemic lupus erythematosus according to the 2019 EULAR/ACR classification criteria
⁃ Sjogren's Syndrome according to the 2016 EULAR/ACR classification criteria
• According to local regulations, patient has expressed his/her non-opposition (for France) or has provided written informed consent (for Switzerland and Germany) to participate in the study
• Patient has access to the internet, a functioning email address and a mobile phone number
• Patient physically and mentally able to use a computer tool connected to the Internet
• Only in Switzerland \& Germany : patient is covered by a health insurance plan