A comparison of two primary care trials on tennis elbow: Issues of external validity

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1406-1409

  Smidt, Nynke ^a,b   Lewis, M ^b   Hay, E M ^b   Van Der Windt, D A W M ^a   Bouler, L M ^a   Croft, P ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; NAPROXEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLACEBO; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELBOW; ELBOW DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NECK; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SHOULDER; TENNIS ELBOW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION PROCESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; INTRAARTICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAPROXEN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TENNIS ELBOW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27744502060     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2004.029363     Document Type: Article

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