Functional status assessment of physical impairment in a community based population with rheumatoid arthritis: Severely incapacitated patients are rare

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 617-623

  Hakala, Markku ^a,b   Nieminen, Pentti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b Department of Internal Medicine ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Disease modifying antirheumatic drugs; Health assessment questionnaire; Joint prosthesis; Keitel function test; Orthopedic surgery; Outcome; Team management

Indexed keywords

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; JOINT PROSTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0029983719     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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