The Scleroderma Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ): A new self-assessment questionnaire for evaluation of disease status in patients with systemic sclerosis

Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 168-175

  Ostojic P ^a,b   Damjanov, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b NONE   (SCG)

Author keywords

Disease severity; Systemic sclerosis questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION DISORDER; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; JOINT CONTRACTURE; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; LUNG FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; OSTEOLYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANK SUM TEST; RATING SCALE; SCLERODERMA; SCLERODERMA ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF EVALUATION; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 33645274694     PISSN: 03401855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00393-006-0050-7     Document Type: Article

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