Assessment of global disease activity in RA patients monitored in the METEOR database: The patient's versus the rheumatologist's opinion

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 461-466

  Gvozdenović, Emilia ^a   Koevoets, Rosanne ^a   Wolterbeek, Ron ^a   Van Der Heijde, Désirée ^a   Huizinga, Tom W J ^a   Allaart, Cornelia F ^a   Landewé, Robert B M ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disease activity score; Outcomes; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE; DISEASE DURATION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT SWELLING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOCICEPTION; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT OF GLOBAL DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE; PHYSICIAN ASSESSMENT OF GLOBAL DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; IMMUNOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATOLOGY; SELF REPORT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84898657230     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: 14349949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-013-2390-4     Document Type: Article

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