Present and future of rheumatic diseases in Latin America. Are we prepared to face them?;Presente y futuro de las enfermedades reumáticas en Iberoamérica. ¿Estamos preparados para hacerles frente?

Reumatologia Clinica

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 279-280

  Cardiel, Mario H ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL DR MIGUEL SILVA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 80052965198     PISSN: 1699258X     EISSN: 18851398     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reuma.2010.12.009     Document Type: Article

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