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James F. Fries
Researcher at Stanford University
Publications - 369
Citations - 87747
James F. Fries is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rheumatoid arthritis & Arthritis. The author has an hindex of 100, co-authored 369 publications receiving 83589 citations. Previous affiliations of James F. Fries include University of Saskatchewan & National Institutes of Health.
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Joint Pain or Arthritis
TL;DR: The guidelines presented will be useful in the majority of cases and will provide a logical framework within which to categorize the problems.
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Reducing the need and demand for medical care: implications for quality management and outcome improvement.
TL;DR: The underlying conceptual bases and the abundant empiric documentation of the effectiveness of need and demand reduction are summarized here.
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Safety, cost and effectiveness issues with disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs in rheumatoid arthritis.
TL;DR: Safety, cost, and eVectiveness studies are critically important for definitive assessment of disease modifying drugs (DMARDs), particularly when new mechanisms of drug action are likely to be present, as these dimensions cannot be adequately assessed in pre-marketing studies.
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ARAMIS: A National Chronic Disease Data Bank System
James F. Fries,Dennis J. McShane +1 more
TL;DR: The history, philosophy, potential, and problems of national data banks of clinical experience designed to aid the physician by relating medical processes to patient outcome are discussed.
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The close correlation between symptoms and disease expression in HLA B27 positive individuals.
TL;DR: The clinical and radiological study revealed that there is a close correlation between symptoms and radiologic change in HLA B27 positive subjects; those individuals remaining symptom free have normal pelvic radiographs.