In patients with early rheumatoid arthritis, the new ACR/EULAR definition of remission identifies patients with persistent absence of functional disability and suppression of ultrasonographic synovitis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 245-249

  Sakellariou, Garifallia ^a   Scirè, Carlo Alberto ^a   Verstappen, Suzanne M M ^b   Montecucco, Carlomaurizio ^a   Caporali, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVITIS;

AGED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNOVITIS;

EID: 84872066194     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2012-201817     Document Type: Article

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