Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, PO box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, the Netherlands Dr J M A Mens. Local injections of ...
OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of the individual components of physiotherapy in subjects with anterior knee pain. METHODS An observer blind, prospective, factorial design randomised controlled ...
OBJECTIVES To investigate the potential relation between cumulative exposure to cigarette smoking in patients with or without rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and a positive family history of the disease.
Objective: To develop a composite score for measurement of disease activity in polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and assess its internal and external validity. Methods: A PMR activity score (AS) was ...
Correspondence to W B van den Bosch, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; W.B.van_den_Bosch{at}lumc.nl Objectives In daily ...
1 Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Northern Norway, Tromsø, Norway 2 Department of Rheumatology, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet University Hospital, Oslo, Norway Correspondence to ...
1 Rheumatology, Med. Department I, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2 Department of Radiology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 3 ...
1 Università degli Studi di Genova and Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy 2 Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy ...
Objective To determine trends in survival among adult and paediatric patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) from 1950 to the present. Methods We performed a systematic literature review to ...
7 Maastricht University Medical Center and CAPHRI Research Institute, Maastricht, The Netherlands Correspondence to Professor D van der Heijde, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical ...
Objectives To determine the trends in incidence, prevalence and mortality of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in a US population over four decades. Methods We identified all the patients with SLE in ...
Background: Patient reported outcome measures used in studies of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have been found to be inadequate for determining the impact of the disease from the patient’s perspective.