Assessment of disability with the World Health Organisation Disability Assessment Schedule II in patients with ankylosing spondylitis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 140-145

  Van Tubergen, A ^a   Landewe R ^a   Heuft Dorenbosch, L ^a   Spoorenberg, A ^a   Van Der Heijde, D ^a   Van Der Tempel, H ^b   Van Der Linden, S ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Sittard Geleen Heerlen   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISABILITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPA TREATMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION DISABILITY ASSESSMENT SCHEDULE II;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BALNEOLOGY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037307886     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.62.2.140     Document Type: Article

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