Reliability and sensitivity to change of the Simple Erosion Narrowing Score compared with the Sharp-van der Heijde method for scoring radiographs in rheumatoid arthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 375-379

  Dias, E M ^a   Lukas, C ^a   Landewe R ^a   Fatenejad, S ^b   Van Der Heijde, D ^c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETANERCEPT; METHOTREXATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RANK SUM TEST; RELIABILITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHARP VAN DER HEIJDE; SIMPLE EROSION NARROWING SCORE;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHOTREXATE; OBSERVER VARIATION; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39549103669     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2007.072785     Document Type: Article

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