A welcome address for the new criteria

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1577-1579

  Van Schaardenburg, Dirkjan ^a   Dijkmans, Ben A C ^b  

^a JAN VAN BREEMEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG;

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

EID: 77956037512     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2010.135335     Document Type: Editorial

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