Benefits and Sustainability of a Learning Collaborative for Implementation of Treat-to-Target in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Results of a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Phase II Clinical Trial

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2018, Pages 1551-1556

  Solomon, Daniel H ^a   Lu, Bing ^a   Yu, Zhi ^a   Corrigan, Cassandra ^a   Harrold, Leslie R ^b   Smolen, Josef S ^c   Fraenkel, Liana ^d   Katz, Jeffrey N ^a   Losina, Elena ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY PLACEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 85054071965     PISSN: 2151464X     EISSN: 21514658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.23508     Document Type: Article

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