Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: The validity of a rheumatoid arthritis medical records-based index of severity compared with the DAS28. | Available online http content 8 3 R57 Research article The validity of a rheumatoid arthritis medical records-based index of severity compared with the DAS28 Masayo Sato1 Sebastian Schneeweiss1 Richard Scranton2 Jeffrey N Katz3 Michael E Weinblatt3 Jerry Avorn1 Gladys Ting1 Nancy A Shadick3 and Daniel H Solomon1 3 1 Division of Pharmacoepidemiology Department of Medicine Brigham and Women s Hospital Harvard Medical School 1620 Tremont Street Suite 3030 Boston MA 02120 USA 2Boston VA Medical Center 150 South Huntignton Avenue Jamaica Plain MA 02130 USA 3Division of Rheumatology Immunology and Allergy Department of Medicine Brigham and Women s Hospital Harvard Medical School 75 Francis Street Boston MA 02115 USA Corresponding author Daniel H Solomon dhsolomon@ Received 19 Dec 2005 Revisions requested 26 Jan 2006 Revisions received 9 Feb 2006 Accepted 14 Feb 2006 Published 14 Mar 2006 Arthritis Research Therapy 2006 8 R57 doi ar1 921 This article is online at http content 8 3 R57 2006 Solomon et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract The objective of this work was to assess the convergent validity of a previously developed rheumatoid arthritis medical records-based index of severity RARBIS by comparing it with the 28-joint Disease Activity Score DAS28 . This study was conducted in subjects within the Brigham and Women s Hospital Rheumatoid Arthritis Sequential Study BRASS . We selected 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis RA from the BRASS with DAS28 scores equally distributed in four quartiles. The medical records were reviewed to calculate the RARBIS which includes indicators from the following categories prior surgical .
