Value of self-performed joint counts in rheumatoid arthritis patients near remission

Arthritis Research and Therapy

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Radner, Helga ^a   Grisar, Johannes ^a   Smolen, Josef S ^a   Stamm, Tanja ^a   Aletaha, Daniel ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; JOINT COUNT; JOINT EXAMINATION; KAPPA STATISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; PATIENT MONITORING; RELIABILITY; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SELF CONCEPT; SWELLING; VALIDITY; AGED; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF EXAMINATION; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REMISSION INDUCTION; SELF-EXAMINATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84858049754     PISSN: 14786354     EISSN: 14786362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/ar3777     Document Type: Article

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