Time to disease-modifying antirheumatic drug treatment in rheumatoid arthritis and its predictors: a national, multicenter, retrospective cohort.

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Published in J Rheumatol on August 15, 2012

Authors

Ruben Tavares1, Janet E Pope, Jean-Luc Tremblay, Carter Thorne, Vivian P Bykerk, Juris Lazovskis, Kenneth L N Blocka, Mary J Bell, Diane Lacaille, Carol A Hitchon, Avril A Fitzgerald, Wesley K Fidler, Arthur A M Bookman, James M Henderson, Dianne P Mosher, Dalton E Sholter, Majed Khraishi, Boulos Haraoui, Hong Chen, Xiuying Li, Andreas Laupacis, Gilles Boire, George Tomlinson, Claire Bombardier

Author Affiliations

1: McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. ruben.tavares@sympatico.ca

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