Clareo Health | Health-Related Quality of Life and Disease-Related Costs: Comparison Between Ankylosing Spondylitis, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Taiwan
Health-Related Quality of Life and Disease-Related Costs: Comparison Between Ankylosing Spondylitis, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Taiwan
AS patients who fit the modified New York criteria (1984)
RA patients who fit the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria (1987)
SLE patients who fit the ACR revised criteria for the classification of SLE (1997)
You may not be if
1\. Patients who have cognitive impairment.
2\. Patients who have overlapping syndrome of any 2 of the 3 rheumatic disease (eg. RA overlapping with SLE).
3\. Patients who are less than 18 years old or older than 65 years old.
4\. Patients who visited rheumatologists in the outpatient clinics of the Division of Rheumatology at Taichung Veterans General Hospital for less than 4 times in 2008.
