Linkage of a de-identified united states rheumatoid arthritis registry with administrative data to facilitate comparative effectiveness research

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1790-1798

  Curtis, Jeffrey R ^a   Chen, Lang ^a   Bharat, Aseem ^a   Delzell, Elizabeth ^a   Greenberg, Jeffrey D ^b   Harrold, Leslie ^c   Kremer, Joel ^d   Setoguchi, Soko ^e   Solomon, Daniel H ^f   Xie, Fenglong ^a   Yun, Huifeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^e DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABATACEPT; ADALIMUMAB; CERTOLIZUMAB PEGOL; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; ETANERCEPT; GOLIMUMAB; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; INFLIXIMAB; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; TOCILIZUMAB; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; FACTUAL DATABASE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTER; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RHEUMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84912072924     PISSN: 2151464X     EISSN: 21514658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.22377     Document Type: Article

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