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: Development of a health care utilisation data-based index for rheumatoid arthritis severity: a preliminary study. | Available online http content 10 4 R95 Research article Development of a health care utilisation data-based index for rheumatoid arthritis severity a preliminary study Gladys Ting1 Sebastian Schneeweiss1 Richard Scranton2 Jeffrey N Katz3 Michael E Weinblatt3 Melissa Young2 Jerry Avorn1 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 2Masschusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center VA Cooperative Studies Program VA Boston Healthcare System 150 South Huntington 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 dsolomon@ Received 12 May 2008 Revisions requested 20 Jun 2008 Revisions received 25 Jul 2008 Accepted 21 Aug 2008 Published 21 Aug 2008 Arthritis Research Therapy 2008 10 R95 doi ar2482 This article is online at http content 10 4 R95 2008 Ting 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 Introduction Health care utilisation claims databases contain information about millions of patients and are an important source of information for a variety of study types. However they typically do not contain information about disease severity. The goal of the present study was to develop a health care claims index for rheumatoid arthritis RA severity using a previously developed medical records-based index for RA severity RA medical records-based index of severity RARBIS . Methods The study population .
