Joint index vector: a novel assessment measure for stratified medicine in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Abstract Objective To predict the next-year status in patients with rheumatoid arthritis using big data. Methods Joint index (JI) of upper/large (UL), upper/small (US), lower/large (LL), and lower/small (LS) was calculated as the sum of tender and swollen joint counts divided by the number of evalua...

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Main Authors: Susumu Nishiyama, Tetsuji Sawada, Jinju Nishino, Shigeto Tohma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-10-01
Series:Journal of Big Data
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40537-018-0148-1