The Sharp/van der Heijde method out-performed the Larsen/Scott method on the individual patient level in assessing radiographs in early rheumatoid arthritis

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 502-512

  Bruynesteyn, Karin ^a   Van Der Heijde, Désirée ^a   Boers, Maarten ^b   Van Der Linden, Sjef ^a   Lassere, Marissa ^c   Van Der Vleuten, Cees ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessment; Generalizability theory; Radiographic scoring method; Reliability; Responsiveness; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACUTE DISEASE; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ERROR; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; TECHNIQUE; X RAY FILM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ARTHROGRAPHY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2942560706     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2003.10.014     Document Type: Article

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