Standards of care for inflammatory arthritis: A literature review

The review provides a comprehensive report on quality standards in inflammatory arthritis and highlights two uses of the term “Standard” in the quality literature as follows: (i) a numeric target for performance measurement and (ii) a statement about minimum, optimum, or aspirational goals of care that may not be easily measurable. Future standard development teams should include patients living with arthritis and should employ rigorous and transparent methodology for standard development and consider development of quality measures alongside standards to enhance uptake and impact of both tools.