The FOOTSTEP self-management foot care programme: Are rheumatoid arthritis patients physically able to participate?

Musculoskeletal Care

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-65

  Semple, Ruth ^a   Newcombe, L W ^a   Finlayson, G L ^a   Hutchison, C R ^a   Forlow, J H ^a   Woodburn, J ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Foot care; Podiatry disability; Rheumatoid arthritis; Self management

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HYGIENE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PODIATRY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SELF CARE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASES; HUMANS; HYGIENE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PODIATRY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SELF CARE;

EID: 65549161427     PISSN: 14782189     EISSN: 15570681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msc.142     Document Type: Article

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