A practical guide to scoring a Multi-Dimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire (MDHAQ) and Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data (RAPID) scores in 10-20 seconds for use in standard clinical care, without rulers, calculators, websites or computers

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 755-787

  Pincus, Theodore ^a   Yazici, Yusuf ^a   Bergman, Martin ^b  

^a NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

^b Taylor Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

MDHAQ; practical; questionnaires; RAPID; score

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; CODEINE; FOLIC ACID; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE; NAPROXEN; PARACETAMOL; PREDNISONE; RANITIDINE;

CHECKLIST; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; ROUTINE ASSESSMENT OF PATIENT INDEX DATA; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 34547441483     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2007.02.005     Document Type: Review

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