Patient questionnaires and formal education as more significant prognostic markers than radiographs or laboratory tests for rheumatoid arthritis mortality: Limitations of a biomedical model to predict long-term outcomes

Bulletin of the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases

Volumn 65, Issue 1 SUPPL, 2007, Pages

  Pincus, Theodore ^a  

^a NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CAUSE OF DEATH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 35748967899     PISSN: 19369719     EISSN: 19369727     Source Type: Journal    
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