Consistency in assessing the Disease Activity Score-28 in routine clinical practice [2]

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 135-136

  Walsh, Ceara A E ^a   Mullan, R H ^a   Minnock, P B ^a   Slattery, C ^a   FitzGerald, O ^a   Bresnihan, B ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE 28; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EXERCISE; INTER OBSERVER EXERCISE; INTRA OBSERVER EXERCISE; JOINT SWELLING; LETTER; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RHEUMATOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 37749008826     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2007.076885     Document Type: Letter

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