Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 597-599 , August 2007

Quantitative assessment of musculoskeletal conditions in standard clinical care

  • Theodore Pincus, MD (Director of Outcomes Research)

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☆ Supported in part by grants from the Arthritis Foundation, and the Jack Massey Foundation.

PII: S1521-6942(07)00036-8

doi: 10.1016/j.berh.2007.03.002

Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 597-599 , August 2007

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