Timing the therapeutic window of opportunity in early rheumatoid arthritis: Proposal for definitions of disease duration in clinical trials

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1921-1923

  Raza, Karim ^a   Saber, Tajvur P ^a   Kvien, Tore K ^b   Tak, Paul P ^c   Gerlag, Danielle M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b DIAKONHJEMMET HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; HUMAN; JOINT SWELLING; ONSET AGE; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84868454136     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2012-201893     Document Type: Review

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