Introduction: Value of epidemiological research for clinical practice

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Cimmino, Marco A ^a   Hazes, J Mieke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Classification criteria; Epidemiology; Health care planning; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

ARTHRALGIA; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FIBROMYALGIA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LYME DISEASE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW;

EID: 0036449542     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/berh.2002.0277     Document Type: Editorial

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