Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 755-787 , August 2007

A practical guide to scoring a Multi-Dimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire (MDHAQ) and Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data (RAPID) scores in 10–20seconds for use in standard clinical care, without rulers, calculators, websites or computers

  • Theodore Pincus, MD (Director of Outcomes Research)

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 615 936 2152; Fax: +1 615 936 2159.

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PII: S1521-6942(07)00021-6

doi: 10.1016/j.berh.2007.02.005

Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 755-787 , August 2007

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