Abstract Introduction Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is highly prevalent during acute illness and survivorship, with almost 100% of cancer patients experiencing such symptomatology. While CRF commonly co-occurs sleep disturbance and/or after treatment, (nevertheless) defined as occurring independent considerations. Last year it was reported (based on preliminary findings from a pilot study), that...

Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory, systemic autoimmune disease affecting the synovial membrane of small joints. 1 Wagan A. et al demonstrated that frequency fatigue in rheumatoid 62%, 2 Hammam described a higher rate associated with activity. Fatigue as feeling exhaustion, also reduction physical and mental capacity, 3,4 it can be measured scale FACIT-F (Functional Assessm...

Background: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a systemic large vessel vasculitis that results in symptoms (e.g., headaches, jaw claudication, fatigue, pain, etc.) can have multiple negative impacts on an individual’s health-related quality of life. Objectives: To identify important and experienced by individuals with GCA, develop conceptual model, evaluate available patient reported outcome (PRO) m...

Background: Treat-to-target strategies have improved outcomes in patients with RA. Targets based on clinical assessments of tender (TJC) and swollen joints (SJC) were developed when most had active inflammatory disease. It is now recognised some pain sensitisation often termed fibromyalgia (FM), making assessment disease more complex. An indicator the difference between TJC SJC, an observation ...

Background Fibromyalgia (FM) is a clinical condition characterized by chronic widespread pain associated with symptoms such as fatigue, waking unrefreshed, depression. Several studies reported relationship between high body mass index (BMI) and painful syndromes FM, but the real impact of BMI on severity in patients FM still unclear. Furthermore, neuropathic component pain. Obesity overweight s...

Software development is still considered a bottleneck in the advance of the Information Society. The recently started FACIT-SME European FP-7 project targets to facilitate the use and sharing of Software Engineering methods and best practices among software developing SMEs. On top of an Open Reference Model (ORM) serving as an underlying knowledge backbone, specific filtering/search mechanisms ...