Standard treatment in daily clinical practice for early rheumatoid arthritis improved disease activity from 2001 to 2006

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 594-597

  Nakajima, Ayako ^a   Inoue, Eisuke ^a   Shidara, Kumi ^a   Hoshi, Daisuke ^a   Sato, Eri ^a   Seto, Yohei ^a   Tanaka, Eiichi ^a   Taniguchi, Atsuo ^a   Momohara, Shigeki ^a   Yamanaka, Hisashi ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disease activity; Inception cohort; Physical function; Rheumatoid arthritis; Treatment

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84855712983     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: 14397609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10165-011-0457-0     Document Type: Article

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