Test-retest reliability of the Disease Activity Score 28 CRP (DAS28-CRP), the Simplified Disease Activity Index (SDAI) and the Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI) in rheumatoid arthritis when based on patient self-assessment of tender and swollen joints

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1493-1500

  Heegaard, Cecilie ^a   Dreyer, Lene ^a   Egsmose, Charlotte ^a   Madsen, Ole Rintek ^a  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Outcome assessment; Reliability; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL DISEASE ACTIVITY INDEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAS28; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT SWELLING; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SELF EVALUATION; SIMPLIFIED DISEASE ACTIVITY INDEX; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; JOINTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEUMATOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84885312284     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: 14349949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-013-2300-9     Document Type: Article

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