Does clinical remission lead to normalization of EQ-5D in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and is selection of remission criteria important?

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 285-290

  Linde, Louise ^a   Sørensen, Jan ^c   Østergaard, Mikkel ^a   Hørslev Petersen, Kim ^b   Hetland, Merete Lund ^a,d  

^a Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^b King Christian the Xth Hospital   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d Danbio Registry ^*

Author keywords

Clinical disease activity index; Clinical remission; Disease activity score; Health related quality of life; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT SURGERY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PATIENT SELECTION; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING;

AGED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMISSION INDUCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 76649091916     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.090898     Document Type: Article

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