Assistive devices: Usage in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 119-128

  de Boer, I G ^a   Peeters, A J ^b   Ronday, H K ^c   Mertens, B J A ^a   Huizinga, T W J ^a   Vliet Vlieland, T P M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis ^*  (Netherlands)

^c LEYENBURG HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Assistive devices; Compliance; Cross sectional study; Disability; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NETHERLANDS; ORTHOPEDIC SHOE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT MOBILITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF-HELP DEVICES; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 58149186793     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-008-0989-7     Document Type: Article

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