Definition of disease duration in ankylosing spondylitis

Autor:	Ernst Feldtkeller, Jon Erlendsson
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Ankylosing spondylitis medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors business.industry Diagnosis delay Disease duration Immunology medicine.disease Term (time) Rheumatology Duration (music) Physical therapy Humans Immunology and Allergy Medicine Spondylitis Ankylosing Symptom onset business Spondylitis
Zdroj:	Rheumatology International. 28:693-696
ISSN:	1437-160X 0172-8172
DOI:	10.1007/s00296-007-0499-y
Popis:	Two definitions of the "disease duration" of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) have been used in the literature: (1) duration since first symptoms connected with AS and (2) duration since diagnosis of AS. To investigate how useful these definitions are for research, we reinvestigated the data of four surveys completed by patients with AS in the years since 1996. We found that the majority of the patients remembered the age at first symptoms with an accuracy of
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