Home Monitoring of Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis - an eHealth Development Study (ELECTOR I)

A two-step multi-centre study containing:

A test-retest study including 320 patients filling in questionnaires and performing joint assessments to assess reliability of patient generated data incl. a nested randomized controlled trial focusing on assessing the effect of repeated online patient instruction

A nested agreement study focusing on questionnaires and joint assessments performed by 60 randomly chosen patients, a medical student, a physician and by an ultrasound-examinator assessing agreement between the four groups.