Predictors of functional status in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 223-226

  Jansen, L M A ^a   Van Schaardenburg, D ^a   Van Der Horst Bruinsma, I E ^b   Bezemer, P D ^c   Dijkmans, B A C ^b  

^a JAN VAN BREEMEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; WELLBEING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0034035572     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.59.3.223     Document Type: Article

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