Scores for functional disability in patients with rheumatoid arthritis are correlated at higher levels with pain scores than with radiographic scores
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Correlation of the score for subjective pain with physical disability, clinical and radiographic scores in recent onset rheumatoid arthritis
BACKGROUND To analyse the relationship between subjective pain score and other measures of clinical, radiographic and functional status; in particular Larsen radiographic scores and Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ); in patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with a disease duration of less than 3 years. METHODS In this cross sectional study of 105 patients with RA (76 women, 29 me...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arthritis & Rheumatism
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0004-3591,1529-0131
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(200002)43:2<386::aid-anr19>3.0.co;2-z