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