Monitoring of rheumatoid arthritis disease activity in individual patients: Still a hurdle when implementing the treat-to-target principle in daily clinical practice

Rheumatology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 959-961

  Jacobs, Johannes W G ^a   Ten Cate, David F ^b   Van Laar, Jacob M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DAS28; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; JOINT SWELLING; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; TENDER JOINT COUNT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 84938521095     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keu334     Document Type: Editorial

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