Can we develop simple response criteria for slow acting antirheumatic drugs?
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Can we develop simple response criteria for slow acting antirheumatic drugs?
The conventional assessment of response to slow acting antirheumatic drugs depends on multiple clinical and laboratory measures. Each measure is analysed separately. For clinical practice and therapeutic trials a single unified classification of response is preferable, based on the most sensitive and simple current measures. Whether or not this was practical was determined in a prospective stud...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0003-4967
DOI: 10.1136/ard.49.3.196