Living life precariously with rheumatoid arthritis - a mega-ethnography of nine qualitative evidence syntheses

Abstract Background Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that causes joint inflammation. It affects around 400,000 people in the UK and 1 million adults in the USA. Given the appropriate treatment, many can have relatively few symptoms. It is therefore important to understand what it is lik...

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Main Authors: Fran Toye, Kate Seers, Karen Louise Barker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-02-01
Series:BMC Rheumatology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41927-018-0049-0