Quantitative Recording of Physician Clinical Estimates, Beyond a Global Estimate and Formal Joint Count, in Usual Care: Applying the Scientific Method, Using a Simple One-Page Worksheet

Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 813-817

  Pincus, Theodore ^a   Bergman, Martin J ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Taylor Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Damage estimate; Fibromyalgia somatization estimate; Physician global estimate; Prognosis estimate

Indexed keywords

ABATACEPT; ADALIMUMAB; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE;

CLINICAL TRIAL; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SOMATIZATION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

DOCUMENTATION; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; JOINTS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; RHEUMATOLOGY;

EID: 70749099011     PISSN: 0889857X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rdc.2009.10.020     Document Type: Review

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