Validity of the disease activity score in undifferentiated arthritis

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1392-1398

  Fransen, Jaap ^a   Visser, Karen ^b   Van Dongen, Henrike ^b   Huizinga, Tom ^b   Van Riel, Piet L C M ^a   Van Der Heijde, Désirée M ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; METHOTREXATE; PLACEBO;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ADULT; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; JOINT SWELLING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VALIDITY; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77957688287     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.20244     Document Type: Article

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