Performance of the 2011 ACR/EULAR preliminary remission criteria compared with DAS28 remission in unselected patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1194-1199

  Thiele, Katja ^a   Huscher, Dörte ^a   Bischoff, Sascha ^a   Spaẗhling Mestekemper, Susanna ^b   Backhaus, Marina ^a   Aringer, Martin ^c   Kohlmann, Thomas ^d   Zink, Angela ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Psychotherapist in Private Practice   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOOLEAN CRITERIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAS28; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIMPLIFIED DISEASE ACTIVITY INDEX; SPINE DISEASE;

DAS28; EPIDEMIOLOGY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REMISSION INDUCTION;

EID: 84878380787     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2012-201821     Document Type: Article

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