Defining remission in rheumatoid arthritis: Results of an initial american college of rheumatology/european league against rheumatism consensus conference

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 704-710

  Van, Lilian ^a   Tuy, H D ^a   Vlad, Steven C ^b   Felson, David T ^b   Wells, George ^c   Boers, Maarten ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REMISSION INDUCTION; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 66249139579     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.24392     Document Type: Article

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