Measures of activity and damage in rheumatoid arthritis: Depiction of changes and prediction of mortality over five years

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 381-394

  Callahan, Leigh F ^a   Pincus, Theodore ^b   Huston III, Joseph W ^c   Brooks, Raye H ^b   Paul Nance Jr , E ^d   Kaye, Jeremy J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Baptist Hospital Nashville   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity; Joint damage; Morbidity; Mortality; Outcomes; Questionnaire; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; EDUCATION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRIP STRENGTH; HELPLESSNESS; HUMAN; JOINT DESTRUCTION; JOINT FUNCTION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SELF REPORT;

EID: 84988223645     PISSN: 0004-3591     EISSN: 1529-0131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.1790100606     Document Type: Article

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