The validity of a rheumatoid arthritis medical records-based index of severity compared with the DAS28

Arthritis Research and Therapy

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Landewé, Robert ^a   van der Heijde, Désirée ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL STUDY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; JOINT INJURY; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOTE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STANDARDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745252553     PISSN: 14786354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/ar1937     Document Type: Note

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