A Biopsychosocial Model to Complement a Biomedical Model: Patient Questionnaire Data and Socioeconomic Status Usually Are More Significant than Laboratory Tests and Imaging Studies in Prognosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 699-712

  McCollum, Lauren ^a   Pincus, Theodore ^a  

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

Author keywords

Biomedical model; Biopsychosocial model; Prognosis; Self report questionnaires

Indexed keywords

RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FIBROMYALGIA; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MORTALITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCLERODERMA; SELF CARE; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WORK DISABILITY;

AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COMORBIDITY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 70749144308     PISSN: 0889857X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rdc.2009.10.003     Document Type: Review

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