To develop a self-administered questionnaire, the ROAD (Recent-Onset Arthritis Disability), to probe physical disability in Italian patients with early arthritis (EA) of less than one year's duration.
Department of Rheumatology, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ospedale A Murri, ASUR Zona Territoriale n 5, Via dei Colli no 52, Jesi (Ancona), Italy. fsalaff@tin.it
