Delays in assessment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis: Variations across Europe

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1822-1825

  Raza, Karim ^a,b,c   Stack, Rebecca ^a,b   Kumar, Kanta ^a,b   Filer, Andrew ^a,b,c   Detert, Jacqueline ^d   Bastian, Hans ^d   Burmester, Gerd R ^d   Sidiropoulos, Prodromos ^e   Kteniadaki, Eleni ^e   Repa, Argyro ^e   Saxne, Tore ^f   Turesson, Carl ^f   Mann, Herman ^g   Vencovsky, Jiri ^g   Catrina, Anca ^h   Chatzidionysiou, Aikaterini ^h   Hensvold, Aase ^h   Rantapää Dahlqvist, Solbritt ⁱ   Binder, Alexa ^j   Machold, Klaus ^j   Kwiakowska, Brygida ^k   Ciurea, Adrian ^l   Tamborrini, Giorgio ^l   Kyburz, Diego ^l   Buckley, Christopher D ^a,b,c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b SANDWELL AND WEST BIRMINGHAM HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^h KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

ⁱ UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^j MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^k INSTITUTE OF RHEUMATOLOGY   (Poland)

^l UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; FEMALE; GERMANY; GREECE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOLOGY; SWEDEN; SWITZERLAND; THERAPY DELAY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80052475533     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2011.151902     Document Type: Article

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