Tight control in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis: Efficacy and feasibility

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2007, Pages

  Bakker, M F ^a   Jacobs, J W G ^a   Verstappen, S M M ^a   Bijlsma, J W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CONTROL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MEGADOSE; HUMAN; MONOTHERAPY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; METHOTREXATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REMISSION INDUCTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 35649025913     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2007.078360     Document Type: Conference Paper

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