Diagnostic delay of more than 6 months contributes to poor radiographic and functional outcome in psoriatic arthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1045-1050

  Haroon, Muhammad ^a   Gallagher, Phil ^a   FitzGerald, Oliver ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BONE EROSION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DACTYLITIS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; JOINT RADIOGRAPHY; JOINT STIFFNESS; JOINT SWELLING; LAG TIME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONSET AGE; OSTEOLYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SACROILIITIS; AGED; ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC; BODY SURFACE; FOOT; HAND JOINT; RADIOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SACROILIAC JOINT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC; BODY SURFACE AREA; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOOT JOINTS; HAND JOINTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSORIASIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SACROILIAC JOINT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84934896503     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-204858     Document Type: Article

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