In wealthier countries, patients perceive worse impact of the disease although they have lower objectively assessed disease activity: Results from the cross-sectional COMORA study

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 715-720

  Putrik, Polina ^a,b   Ramiro, Sofia ^c   Hifinger, Monika ^a   Keszei, Andras P ^d   Hmamouchi, Ihsane ^e   Dougados, Maxime ^f   Gossec, Laure ^g   Boonen, Annelies ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^e MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^g SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; JOINT SWELLING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TAIWAN; VENEZUELA; AGED; ARGENTINA; AUSTRIA; COMPLICATION; EGYPT; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUNGARY; ITALY; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOUTH KOREA; SPAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; URUGUAY;

ADULT; AGED; ARGENTINA; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUSTRIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EGYPT; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; GREAT BRITAIN; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; HUNGARY; ITALY; JAPAN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES; URUGUAY; VENEZUELA;

EID: 84941585646     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-207738     Document Type: Article

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