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Defining remission in rheumatoid arthritis based on the Disease Activity Score 28

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boxed-textMäkinen H et al. (2005) Is DAS28 an appropriate tool to assess remission in rheumatoid arthritis. Ann Rheum Dis 64: 1410–1413

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