Acute phase reactants add little to composite disease activity indices for rheumatoid arthritis validation of a clinical activity score.docVIP

Available online /content/7/4/R796 Research article Open Access Vol 7 No 4 Acute phase reactants add little to composite disease activity indices for rheumatoid arthritis: validation of a clinical activity score Daniel Aletaha1,2, Valerie PK Nell1, Tanja Stamm1, Martin Uffmann3, Stephan Pflugbeil4, Klaus Machold1 and Josef S Smolen1,4 1Department of Rheumatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria 2National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA 3Department of Radiology, Medical University of Vienna,