Development of a clinical chart to compute different disease activity indices for systemic lupus erythematosus

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 498-501

  Vitali, Claudio ^a   Bencivelli, Walter ^a   Mosca, Marta ^a   Carrai, Paola ^a   Sereni, Marco ^a   Bombardieri, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Activity indices; Disease activity; Disease outcome; Systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CALCULATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ACTIVITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; REMISSION; STEADY STATE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 0032932508     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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