Electronic and computer-generated patient questionnaires in standard care

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 637-647

  Lee, Susan J ^b   Kavanaugh, Arthur ^a   Lenert, Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California ^*

Author keywords

computerized questionnaires; osteoarthritis; patient derived measures; rheumatoid arthritis; self reported outcomes

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; PLACEBO; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SHORT FORM 36; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDITY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CLINICAL TRIALS; COMPUTERS; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERNET; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RHEUMATOLOGY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34547553834     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2007.02.001     Document Type: Review

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