Patient repositioning reproducibility of joint space width measurements on hand radiographs

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 203-207

  Neumann, Gesa ^a   DePablo, Paola ^a   Finckh, Axel ^b   Chibnik, Lori B ^a   Wolfe, Fred ^c   Duryea, Jeffrey ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL DATA BANK FOR RHEUMATIC DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BONE EROSION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; JOINT CAVITY; JOINT SPACE WIDTH; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; PATIENT POSITIONING; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; REPRODUCIBILITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SHARP SCORE;

FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79551572472     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.20374     Document Type: Article

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