Progress toward the development of a new definition of remission in rheumatoid arthritis

Bulletin of the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 140-142

  Boers, Maarten ^a   Felson, David T ^b   Wells, George ^c   van Tuyl, Lilian H D ^a   Zhang, Bin ^b   Funovits, Julia ^d   Smolen, Josef ^d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DETERIORATION; DISEASE ACTIVITY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RADIOGRAPHY; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; VALIDITY; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CONSENSUS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; NOMENCLATURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CONSENSUS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; REMISSION INDUCTION; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954684346     PISSN: 19369719     EISSN: 19369727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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