Construct validity and reliability of ultrasound disease activity score in assessing joint inflammation in RA: Comparison with DAS-28

Rheumatology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 120-128

  Damjanov, Nemanja ^a   Radunović, Goran ^a   Prodanović, Slavica ^b   Vuković, Vesna ^b   Milić, Vera ^c   Pašalić, Katarina Simić ^c   Jablanović, Dragoslav ^a   Šerić, Srdan ^a   Milutinović, Sanja ^b   Gavrilov, Nikola ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF RHEUMATOLOGY   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c 4th Hospital Department   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Disease activity assessment; Imaging; power Doppler; Rheumatoid arthritis; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORING 28; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FOLLOW UP; GREY SCALE; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; INTEROBSERVER RELIABILITY; JOINT EFFUSION; JOINT HYPERTROPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; SYNOVITIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; X RAY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNOVITIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 84855165043     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/ker255     Document Type: Article

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