The validity of a rheumatoid arthritis medical records-based index of severity compared with the DAS28.

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Published in Arthritis Res Ther on March 14, 2006

Authors

Masayo Sato1, Sebastian Schneeweiss, Richard Scranton, Jeffrey N Katz, Michael E Weinblatt, Jerry Avorn, Gladys Ting, Nancy A Shadick, Daniel H Solomon

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Pharmacoepidemiology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1620 Tremont Street, Suite 3030, Boston, MA 02120, USA. msato@hsph.harvard.edu

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