Comparison of the Belgian Rheumatoid Arthritis Disability Assessment and Health Assessment Questionnaires as Tools to Predict the Need for Support Measures in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.
OBJECTIVE:Scores on the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) predict the need for support measures in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In this study we compare the performance of the HAQ in this context with that of the more disease-specific Belgian Rheumatoid Arthritis Disability Assessment (BRADA) questionnaire. METHODS:In this multicenter observational study, patients with RA and disease duration of at least one year who consulted their rheumatologist for a routine follow-up visit filled out the HAQ, and BRADA questionnaires. The performance of HAQ and BRADA to predict the need for... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | PLoS ONE, Vol 11, Iss 1, p e0146688 (2016) |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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Schlagwörter: | Medicine / R / Science / Q |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27311454 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146688 |