Patient preferences for treatment: Report from a randomised comparison of treatment strategies in early rheumatoid arthritis (BeSt trial)

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1227-1232

  Goekoop Ruiterman, Yvonne P M ^a   De Vries Bouwstra, Jeska K ^b   Allaart, Cornelia F ^a   Kerstens, Pit J S M ^c   Grillet, Bernard A M ^d   De Jager, Mike H ^e   Han, K Huub ^f   Speyer, Irene ^g   Van Der Lubbe, Peter A H M ^h   Seys, Patrick E H ⁱ   Breedveld, Ferdinand C ^a   Dijkmans, Ben A C ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c JAN VAN BREEMEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^d Ziekenhuis Zeeuws Vlaanderen   (Netherlands)

^e ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^f Medisch Centrum Rijnmond Zuid   (Netherlands)

^g MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

^h Vlietland Hospital   (Netherlands)

ⁱ Ziekenhuis Lievensberg   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREDNISONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548187949     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2006.068296     Document Type: Article

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