The associations between poorer pain-related health status and increased hospitalisations and excess mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA): a prospective cohort analysis using the Australian Rheumatology Association Database (ARAD)

Affiliations

• ¹ Discipline of Medicine, The University of Adelaide Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia [email protected].
• ² Basil Hetzel Institute for Translational Health Research, Woodville South, South Australia, Australia.
• ³ Rheumatology Unit, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
• ⁴ Discipline of Medicine, The University of Adelaide Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
• ⁵ Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• ⁶ Department of Rheumatology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia.
• ⁷ Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• ⁸ Department of Rheumatology, Redcliffe Hospital, Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia.
• ⁹ Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• ¹⁰ Department of Rheumatology, St George Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• ¹¹ Department of Medicine, University of New South Wales School of Population Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• ¹² Florence and Cope Professorial Department of Rheumatology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia.
• ¹³ Institute of Bone and Joint Research at Kolling Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• ¹⁴ School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.