Discordance of global assessments by patient and physician is higher in female than in male patients regardless of the physician's sex: Data on patients with rheumatoid arthritis, axial spondyloarthritis, and psoriatic arthritis from the DANBIO registry

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1781-1785

  Egholm, Cecilie Lindström ^a,b   Krogh, Niels Steen ^c   Pincus, Theodore ^d   Dreyer, Lene ^e   Ellingsen, Torkell ^f   Glintborg, Bente ^e   Kowalski, Marcin Ryszard ^g   Lorenzen, Tove ^h   Madsen, Ole Rintek ^e   Nordin, Henrik ⁱ   Rasmussen, Claus ^g   Hetland, Merete Lund ^j  

^a GLOSTRUP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Region Zealand   (Denmark)

^c Zitelab Aps   (Denmark)

^d RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^f ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^g Vendsyssel Hospital   (Denmark)

^h SILKEBORG REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

ⁱ University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^j UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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Author keywords

Ankylosing spondylitis; Psoriatic arthritis; Rheumatoid arthritis; Self assessment; Visual analog scale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXIAL SPONDYLOARTHRITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF FUNCTIONING; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PAIN; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPONDYLARTHRITIS; ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENMARK; FEMALE PHYSICIAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SELF REPORT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGISTRIES; SELF REPORT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84943266820     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: 14992752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.150007     Document Type: Article

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