Does the Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire have potential as a monitoring tool for subjects with rheumatoid arthritis?
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Does the Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire have potential as a monitoring tool for subjects with rheumatoid arthritis?
OBJECTIVE To assist in the interpretation of the Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) score changes for individual patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), by determining the minimum size of score change that can confidently be considered to reflect a significant change in disability from the patient's perspective. METHOD HAQ score changes were calculated for 40 clinic patients with...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0003-4967
DOI: 10.1136/ard.60.4.344