The relationship between disease activity and expert physician's decision to start major treatment in active systemic lupus erythematosus: A decision aid for development of entry criteria for clinical trials

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 277-284

  Abrahamowicz, Michal ^a   Fortin, Paul R ^a   Du Berger, Roxane ^a   Nayak, Veena ^a   Neville, Carolyn ^a   Liang, Matthew H ^b  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Disease activity; Practice variation; SLAM R; SLEDAI; Systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RATING SCALE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIALS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RHEUMATOLOGY;

EID: 0031886296     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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