Patient education in psoriatic arthritis: A cross sectional study on knowledge by a validated self-administered questionnaire

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1560-1565

  Lubrano, Ennio ^a   Helliwell, Philip ^a   Parsons, Wendy ^a   Emery, Paul ^a,b   Veale, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Rheumatology ^*

Author keywords

Knowledge; Patient education; Psoriatic arthritis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF EVALUATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0031950510     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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