Commentary: Patients as Partners: Building on the Experience of Outcome Measures in Rheumatology

Arthritis and Rheumatology

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1334-1336

  Kirwan, John R ^a   De Wit, Maarten P T ^b   Bingham, Clifton O ^c   Leong, Amye ^d   Richards, Pamela ^a   Tugwell, Peter ^e   Voshaar, Marieke ^f   Gossec, Laure ^g  

^a BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Bone and Joint Decade   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^g SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FATIGUE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOLOGY; PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOME;

HUMANS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOME MEASURES; RHEUMATIC DISEASES;

EID: 84971223345     PISSN: 23265191     EISSN: 23265205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.39678     Document Type: Note

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