Patient self-report tender and swollen joint counts in early rheumatoid arthritis

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2551-2561

  Wong, Andrew Lun ^a,c   Wong, Weng Kee ^d   Harker, Judith ^b   Sterz, Millie ^a,c   Bulpitt, Ken ^a,c   Park, Grace ^a,c   Ramos, Brian ^a,c   Clements, Philip ^a,c   Paulus, Harold ^c  

^a OLIVE VIEW UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Joint count; Rheumatoid arthritis; Self report articular scores

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTAL SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEUMATOLOGY; SELF-EXAMINATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032735491     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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