Outcomes of early rheumatoid arthritis - The WHO ICF framework

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 555-570

  Verstappen, Suzanne M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contextual factors; Early rheumatoid arthritis; Outcomes; WHO ICF framework

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; ETANERCEPT; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE;

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CARTILAGE DEGENERATION; CLINICAL DISEASE ACTIVITY INDEX; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMORBIDITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DAS28; DEPRESSION; DETERIORATION; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE; DISEASE DURATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMPLOYABILITY; EMPLOYMENT; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FATIGUE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HAZARD RATIO; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH; JOINT DESTRUCTION; JOINT SWELLING; MEDICAL LEAVE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MONOTHERAPY; MORNING STIFFNESS; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ONSET AGE; OSTEOLYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOLOGY; ROUTINE ASSESSMENT OF PATIENT INDEX DATA; SHORT FORM 36; SIMPLIFIED DISEASE ACTIVITY INDEX; SYNOVITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TENDON SHEATH; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION; WELLBEING; WORK CAPACITY; WORK DISABILITY; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; EARLY RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; OUTCOMES; WHO ICF FRAMEWORK;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISABILITY EVALUATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 85027951851     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: 15321770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2013.09.004     Document Type: Review

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