Effect of patient education on adherence to drug treatment for rheumatoid arthritis: A randomised controlled trial

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 869-875

  Hill, J ^a   Bird, H ^a   Johnson, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INDOMETACIN; PENICILLAMINE; PHENOBARBITAL;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INDIGESTION; JOINT STIFFNESS; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NAUSEA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PLASMA VISCOSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RASH; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TASTE DISORDER; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD VISCOSITY; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PENICILLAMINE; PHENOBARBITAL; SELF EFFICACY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034883633     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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