Are rehabilitation programs for rheumatoid arthritis patients effective?

Studies of Illness in the Aged

1963 • 11,242 citations

Measurement of patient outcome in arthritis

1980 • 4,275 citations

Progress in Development of the Index of ADL

1970 • 3,884 citations

Studies of illness in the aged

1963 • 1,901 citations

1958 Revision of diagnostic criteria for rheumatoid arthritis

1959 • 1,535 citations

CLINICAL STUDIES WITH AN ARTICULAR INDEX FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF JOINT TENDERNESS IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

1968 • 1,360 citations

The dimensions of health outcomes: the health assessment questionnaire, disability and pain scales.

1982 • 1,303 citations

Measuring health status in arthritis

1980 • 1,193 citations

The Sickness Impact Profile: Validation of a Health Status Measure

1976 • 864 citations

Severe functional declines, work disability, and increased mortality in seventy‐five rheumatoid arthritis patients studied over nine years

1984 • 760 citations

Health status: types of validity and the index of well-being.

1976 • 680 citations

Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Adults in the Health Insurance Study

1978 • 645 citations

Comparative measurement efficiency and sensitivity of five health status instruments for arthritis research

1985 • 598 citations

Outcome of comprehensive medical rehabilitation: measurement by PULSES profile and the Barthel Index.

1979 • 556 citations

THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS IN ROCHESTER MINNESOTA: A STUDY OF INCIDENCE, PREVALENCE, AND MORTALITY1

1980 • 400 citations

The arthritis impact measurement scales. further investigations of a health status measure

1982 • 392 citations

Length of Life and Cause of Death in Rheumatoid Arthritis

1953 • 364 citations

Work Disability in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Effects of Disease, Social, and Work Factors

1980 • 340 citations

Toward an Operational Definition of Health

1973 • 299 citations

Onset, Early Stages, and Prognosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Clinical Study of 100 Patients with 11-year Follow-up

1973 • 284 citations

Course and Prognosis in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Further Report

1964 • 281 citations

Functional Status Index: reliability of a chronic disease evaluation instrument.

1980 • 253 citations

A Seven‐Day variability study of 499 patients with peripheral rheumatoid arthritis

1965 • 237 citations

The McMaster Health Index Questionnaire as a measure of quality of life for patients with rheumatoid disease.

1982 • 214 citations

The impact of chronic disease

1981 • 199 citations

Evaluation Of A Functional Index In Rheumatoid Arthritis

1973 • 145 citations

Course and Prognosis in Rheumatoid Arthritis

1957 • 145 citations

The costs of rheumatoid arthritis. a patient‐oriented study of chronic disease costs

1978 • 140 citations

A methodologic framework for developing and selecting endpoints in clinical trials.

1982 • 140 citations

Cause and age at death in a prospective study of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

1981 • 138 citations

Survivorship and Death in Rheumatoid Arthritis

1970 • 135 citations

Measuring functional ability in chronic arthritis. a critical review

1981 • 122 citations

Controlled Trial of the Effect of Complete Immobilization of the Joints in Rheumatoid Arthritis

1963 • 103 citations

Rheumatoid arthritis and mortality

1982 • 93 citations

Comprehensive Outpatient Care in Rheumatoid Arthritis

1968 • 80 citations

Medical and Social Aspects of the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis: With Special Reference to Factors Affecting Prognosis

1955 • 77 citations

Team care in chronic illness: a critical review of the literature of the past 25 years.

1976 • 74 citations

Functional capacity evaluation: an empirical approach.

1980 • 74 citations

Functional status measurement and medical rehabilitation outcomes.

1976 • 71 citations

Polyarticular disability: a functional assessment.

1977 • 67 citations

Value of Bed Rest in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

1971 • 67 citations

Benefits of Hospitalization in Rheumatoid Arthritis

1974 • 56 citations

Health status indicators: Their utility in chronic-disease evaluation research

1980 • 56 citations

Rehabilitation for rheumatoid arthritis patients. A controlled trial

1986 • 54 citations

The long-term effects of treating rheumatoid arthritis.

1983 • 54 citations

In search of a more perfect mousetrap (health status or quality of life instrument).

1982 • 46 citations

A functional status assessment instrument: validation in an elderly population.

1980 • 39 citations

Comprehensive care and psycho-social factors in rehabilitation in chronic rheumatoid arthritis: A controlled study

1972 • 38 citations

Evaluation of functional levels of patients during and following rehabilitation.

1970 • 32 citations

A comparison of follow-up regimes in rheumatoid arthritis.

1980 • 27 citations

Comprehensive management of patients with rheumatoid arthritis some results of the regional arthritis control program in michigan

1974 • 26 citations

Return to work after treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.

1971 • 24 citations

Functional Incapacitation in Rheumatoid Arthritis

1971 • 17 citations

479. Evaluation of functional levels of patients during and following rehabilitation

1970 • 15 citations

Rheumatoid arthritis: five-year study of rehabilitation.

1973 • 14 citations

Comprehensive outpatient care in rheumatoid arthritis. A controlled study

1968 • 11 citations

Ambulant rehabilitation of patients with chronic rheumatic disease. A fourteen-month clinical trial. A preliminary report

1970 • 11 citations

FIVE-YEAR FOLLOW-UP STUDY OF THE PATIENTS ADMITTED TO THE REHABILITATION CENTER OF THE HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

1962 • 11 citations

The rehabilitation unit in the treatment or rneumatoid arthritis.

1963 • 10 citations

Rehabilitation Unit in Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis

1963 • 9 citations

An objective examination of multidisciplinary patient conferences

1984 • 9 citations

How do rheumatic diseases relate to economic potential as influenced by: the rehabilitation specialist.

1969 • 7 citations

REHABILITATION OF NON-WALKERS IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

1976 • 7 citations

DRG legislation and rheumatic disease.

1984 • 5 citations

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1955 • 0 citations