A. Boonen

Publication List Details

Period

1989 - 2009

Number

100

Co-Authors

Classification models for disease: the effect of associations between markers on calculating the risk for disease by likelihood ratio products (2009)

Wittoek, Ruth, De Keyser, Filip, Boonen, A, De Vlam, Kurt, Vastesaeger, Nathan, Mielants, Herman, ...

The risk, for disease or a bad prognosis cart be calculated by means of prediction or classification models that take into account multiple variables. Different methods exist to construct such...

Individual fracture risk and the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates in patients using oral glucocorticoids (2007)

Van Staa, T.P., Geusens, P., Zhang, B., Leufkens, H.G.M., Boonen, A., Cooper, C.

OBJECTIVES: There are few data on the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates with oral glucocorticoids (GCs). An individual patient-based pharmaco-economic model was developed. METHODS: Data were...

Individual fracture risk and the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates in patients using oral glucocorticoids (2007)

Van Staa, T., Zhang, B., Leufkens, H., Boonen, A., Cooper, C.

Objectives. There are few data on the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates with oral glucocorticoids (GCs). An individual patient-based pharmaco-economic model was developed. Methods. Data were...

Individual fracture risk and the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates in patients using oral glucocorticoids (2007)

Van Staa, T., Zhang, B., Leufkens, H., Boonen, A., Cooper, C.

Objectives. There are few data on the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates with oral glucocorticoids (GCs). An individual patient-based pharmaco-economic model was developed. Methods. Data were...

Individual fracture risk and the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates in patients using oral glucocorticoids (2007)

Van Staa, T., GEUSENS, Piet, Zhang, B., Leufkens, H., Boonen, A., Cooper, C.

Objectives. There are few data on the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates with oral glucocorticoids (GCs). An individual patient-based pharmaco-economic model was developed. Methods. Data were...

Individual risk of fracture and the cost-effectiveness of biphosphonates in patients using oral glucocorticoids (2007)

Staa, T.P. Van, Geusens, P., Boonen, A., Leufkens, H.G.M., Cooper, C.

Objectives. There are few data on the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates with oral glucocorticoids (GCs). An individual patient-based pharmaco-economic model was developed. Methods. Data were...

The cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates in postmenopausal women based on individual long-term fracature risks (2007)

Staa, T.P. Van, Geusens, P., Boonen, A., Leufkens, H.G.M., Cooper, C.

Objectives: Cost-effectiveness analyses are routinely based on data from group averages, restricting its generalizibility to those with below- or above-average risk. A pharmacoeconomic model that...

Individual fracture risk and the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates in patients using oral glucocorticoids (2007)

Van Staa, T. P., Geusens, P., Zhang, B., Leufkens, H. G. M., Boonen, A., Cooper, C.

Objectives. There are few data on the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates with oral glucocorticoids (GCs). An individual patient-based pharmaco-economic model was developed. Methods. Data were...

Individual fracture risk and the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates in patients using oral glucocorticoids (2006)

Van Staa, T. P., Geusens, P., Zhang, B., Leufkens, H. G. M., Boonen, A., Cooper, C.

Objectives. There are few data on the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates with oral glucocorticoids (GCs). An individual patient-based pharmaco-economic model was developed. Methods. Data were...

Individual fracture risk and the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates in patients using oral glucocorticoids (2006)

Van Staa, T. P., Geusens, P., Zhang, B., Leufkens, H. G. M., Boonen, A., Cooper, C.

Objectives. There are few data on the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates with oral glucocorticoids (GCs). An individual patient-based pharmaco-economic model was developed. Methods. Data were...

Healthcare consumption and direct costs of rheumatoid arthritis in Belgium (2005)

Boonen, A, Verbruggen, L, Durez, P, De Clerck, L, Malaise, M, ...

The aim of this study was to compare the socioeconomic consequences of early and late rheumatoid arthritis in Belgium and to assess the patient out-of-pocket contributions. This multicentre...

Working status among Dutch patients with rheumatoid arthritis: work disability and working conditions (2005)

Verstappen, S. M. M., Boonen, A., Bijlsma, J. W. J., Buskens, E., Verkleij, H., Schenk, Y., ...

Objectives. To assess work disability and variables associated with work disability among Dutch patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods. A questionnaire on working status was filled out by...

Working status among Dutch patients with rheumatoid arthritis: work disability and working conditions (2004)

Verstappen, S. M. M., Boonen, A., Bijlsma, J. W. J., Buskens, E., Verkleij, H., Schenk, Y., ...

Objectives. To assess work disability and variables associated with work disability among Dutch patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods. A questionnaire on working status was filled out by...

Working status among Dutch patients with rheumatoid arthritis: work disability and working conditions (2004)

Verstappen, S. M. M., Boonen, A., Bijlsma, J. W. J., Buskens, E., Verkleij, H., Schenk, Y., ...

Objectives. To assess work disability and variables associated with work disability among Dutch patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods. A questionnaire on working status was filled out by...

Cost effectiveness of combined spa-exercise therapy in ankylosing spondylitis: A randomized controlled trial (2002)

Van Tubergen, A, Boonen, A, Landewe, R, Hidding, A, ...

Objective. To evaluate the cost effectiveness and cost utility of a 3-week course of combined spa therapy and exercise therapy in addition to standard treatment consisting of antfinflammatory drugs...

Assessment of fatigue in patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis: A psychometric analysis (2002)

Van Tubergen, A, Landewe, R, Spoorenberg, A, Chorus, A, Boonen, A, ...

Objectives. To investigate whether the single-item fatigue question of the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI) and the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI) are appropriate...

Association of baseline levels of markers of bone and cartilage degradation with long-term progression of joint damage in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis - The COBRA Study (2002)

Garnero, P, Landewe, R, Boers, M, Verhoeven, A, Christgau, S, ...

Objective. The known risk factors for radiologic progression in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are not optimally discriminative in patients with early disease who do not have evidence of radiologic...

Detecting radiological changes in rheumatoid arthritis that are considered important by clinical experts: Influence of reading with or without known sequence (2002)

Bruynesteyn, K, Boers, M, Saudan, A, Peloso, P, Paulus, H, Houben, H, ...

Objective. To evaluate whether knowledge of the chronological sequence influences the sensitivity and specificity of the Sharp/van der Heijde (SvH) and Larsen/Scott (LS) scoring method to detect...

Contribution of progression of erosive damage in previously eroded joints in early rheumatoid arthritis trials: COBRA trial as an example (2002)

Bruynesteyn, K, Boers, M, Verhoeven, A, Boonen, A, VAN DER HEIJDE, Desiree

Objective. In rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the context of a drug trial, prevention of erosions in undamaged joints is often considered more important than prevention of progression in already damaged...

Manual jobs increase the risk of patients with ankylosing spondylitis withdrawing from the labour force, also when adjusted for job related withdrawal in the general population (2002)

Boonen, A, Chorus, A, Landewe, R, Miedema, H, Van Der Linden, SJ, ...

Univ Hosp Maastricht, Dept Internal Med, Div Rheumatol, NL-6202 AZ Maastricht, Netherlands. Maasland Ziekenhaus Sittard, Sittard, Netherlands. Erasmus Univ, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Univ Hosp...

Determination of the minimal clinically important difference in rheumatoid arthritis joint damage of the Sharp/van der Heijde and Larsen/Scott scoring methods by clinical experts and comparison with the smallest detectable difference (2002)

Bruynesteyn, K, Boers, M, Saudan, A, Peloso, P, Paulus, H, Houben, H, ...

Objective. To assess the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) in joint damage on hand and foot radiographs of patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as assessed with the Sharp/van...

Cost effectiveness of combined spa-exercise therapy in ankylosing spondylitis: A randomized controlled trial (2002)

Van Tubergen, A, Boonen, A, Landewe, R, Hidding, A, ...

Objective. To evaluate the cost effectiveness and cost utility of a 3-week course of combined spa therapy and exercise therapy in addition to standard treatment consisting of antfinflammatory drugs...

Assessment of fatigue in patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis: A psychometric analysis (2002)

Van Tubergen, A, Landewe, R, Spoorenberg, A, Chorus, A, Boonen, A, ...

Objectives. To investigate whether the single-item fatigue question of the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI) and the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI) are appropriate...

Association of baseline levels of markers of bone and cartilage degradation with long-term progression of joint damage in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis - The COBRA Study (2002)

Garnero, P, Landewe, R, Boers, M, Verhoeven, A, Christgau, S, ...

Objective. The known risk factors for radiologic progression in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are not optimally discriminative in patients with early disease who do not have evidence of radiologic...

Detecting radiological changes in rheumatoid arthritis that are considered important by clinical experts: Influence of reading with or without known sequence (2002)

Bruynesteyn, K, Boers, M, Saudan, A, Peloso, P, Paulus, H, Houben, H, ...

Objective. To evaluate whether knowledge of the chronological sequence influences the sensitivity and specificity of the Sharp/van der Heijde (SvH) and Larsen/Scott (LS) scoring method to detect...

Contribution of progression of erosive damage in previously eroded joints in early rheumatoid arthritis trials: COBRA trial as an example (2002)

Bruynesteyn, K, Boers, M, Verhoeven, A, Boonen, A, VAN DER HEIJDE, Desiree

Objective. In rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the context of a drug trial, prevention of erosions in undamaged joints is often considered more important than prevention of progression in already damaged...

Manual jobs increase the risk of patients with ankylosing spondylitis withdrawing from the labour force, also when adjusted for job related withdrawal in the general population (2002)

Boonen, A, Chorus, A, Landewe, R, Miedema, H, Van Der Linden, SJ, ...

Univ Hosp Maastricht, Dept Internal Med, Div Rheumatol, NL-6202 AZ Maastricht, Netherlands. Maasland Ziekenhaus Sittard, Sittard, Netherlands. Erasmus Univ, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Univ Hosp...

Determination of the minimal clinically important difference in rheumatoid arthritis joint damage of the Sharp/van der Heijde and Larsen/Scott scoring methods by clinical experts and comparison with the smallest detectable difference (2002)

Bruynesteyn, K, Boers, M, Saudan, A, Peloso, P, Paulus, H, Houben, H, ...

Objective. To assess the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) in joint damage on hand and foot radiographs of patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as assessed with the Sharp/van...

Withdrawal from labour force due to work disability in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (2001)

Boonen, A, Chorus, A, Miedema, H, Landewe, R, Schouten, H, ...

Objective-To investigate withdrawal from the labour force because of inability to work owing to ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and to determine the characteristics of patients with no job because of...

Work status and its determinants among patients with ankylosing spondylitis. A systematic literature review (2001)

Boonen, A, De Vet, H, Van Der Linden, SJEF, VAN DER HEIJDE, Desiree

Objective. To evaluate work status and its determinants among patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Methods. A systematic literature review: of original studies published after 1980 in which...

Muhammad Asim Khan. Portrait of a rheumatologist as a great artist (2001)

Boonen, A, VAN DER HEIJDE, Desiree

Univ Hosp Maastricht, Div Rheumatol, Dept Internal Med, NL-6202 AZ Maastricht, Netherlands. Limburgs Univ Ctr, Diepenbeek, Belgium.Boonen, A, Univ Hosp Maastricht, Div Rheumatol, Dept Internal Med,...

Minimal clinically important difference in radiological progression of joint damage over 1 year in rheumatoid arthritis: Preliminary results of a validation study with clinical experts (2001)

Bruynesteyn, K, Boers, M, Lassere, M, Boonen, A, Edmonds, J, Houben, H, ...

To determine the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) between hand and foot films with a 1 year interval assessed with the Sharp/van der Heijde or Larsen/Scott scoring method. Progression...

Robustness and generalizability of smallest detectable difference in radiological progression (2001)

Lassere, MND, Johnson, K, Bruynesteyn, K, Molenaar, E, Boonen, A, Verhoeven, A, ...

The smallest detectable difference (SDD) reflects that component of a measure statistically attributable to error from the measurement process itself. As such it is an irreducible component of the...

Withdrawal from labour force due to work disability in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (2001)

Boonen, A, Chorus, A, Miedema, H, Landewe, R, Schouten, H, ...

Objective-To investigate withdrawal from the labour force because of inability to work owing to ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and to determine the characteristics of patients with no job because of...

Work status and its determinants among patients with ankylosing spondylitis. A systematic literature review (2001)

Boonen, A, De Vet, H, Van Der Linden, SJEF, VAN DER HEIJDE, Desiree

Objective. To evaluate work status and its determinants among patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Methods. A systematic literature review: of original studies published after 1980 in which...

Muhammad Asim Khan. Portrait of a rheumatologist as a great artist (2001)

Boonen, A, VAN DER HEIJDE, Desiree

Univ Hosp Maastricht, Div Rheumatol, Dept Internal Med, NL-6202 AZ Maastricht, Netherlands. Limburgs Univ Ctr, Diepenbeek, Belgium.Boonen, A, Univ Hosp Maastricht, Div Rheumatol, Dept Internal Med,...

Minimal clinically important difference in radiological progression of joint damage over 1 year in rheumatoid arthritis: Preliminary results of a validation study with clinical experts (2001)

Bruynesteyn, K, Boers, M, Lassere, M, Boonen, A, Edmonds, J, Houben, H, ...

To determine the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) between hand and foot films with a 1 year interval assessed with the Sharp/van der Heijde or Larsen/Scott scoring method. Progression...

Robustness and generalizability of smallest detectable difference in radiological progression (2001)

Lassere, MND, Johnson, K, Bruynesteyn, K, Molenaar, E, Boonen, A, Verhoeven, A, ...

The smallest detectable difference (SDD) reflects that component of a measure statistically attributable to error from the measurement process itself. As such it is an irreducible component of the...

Changes in muscle strength in elderly women are related to vitamin D receptor polymorphism and calcium intake. (1999)

Boonen, A, Schoon, E, Declerck, K, GEUSENS, Piet, VANHOOF, Johan, RAUS, Jef

Limburgs Univ Ctr, Inst Biomed Res, DWI, Diepenbeek, Belgium. Acad Hosp, Dept Rheumatol, Maastricht, Netherlands. Acad Hosp, Dept Gastroenterol, Maastricht, Netherlands.

High prevalence of uncorrected non-skeletal risk factors for hip fracture in nursing homes. (1999)

Declerck, K, Vaes, G, Thone, L, Viaene, M, Wertelaers, A, Boonen, A, ...

Limburgs Univ Ctr, DWI, Biomed Res Inst, Diepenbeek, Belgium. Univ Maastricht, Dept Rheumatol, Maastricht, Netherlands. OSTEOLIMB Working Grp, Limburgerhof, Germany. Univ Maastricht, Dept...

Changes in muscle strength in elderly women are related to vitamin D receptor polymorphism and calcium intake. (1999)

Boonen, A, Schoon, E, Declerck, K, GEUSENS, Piet, VANHOOF, Johan, RAUS, Jef

Limburgs Univ Ctr, Inst Biomed Res, DWI, Diepenbeek, Belgium. Acad Hosp, Dept Rheumatol, Maastricht, Netherlands. Acad Hosp, Dept Gastroenterol, Maastricht, Netherlands.

High prevalence of uncorrected non-skeletal risk factors for hip fracture in nursing homes. (1999)

Declerck, K, Vaes, G, Thone, L, Viaene, M, Wertelaers, A, Boonen, A, ...

Limburgs Univ Ctr, DWI, Biomed Res Inst, Diepenbeek, Belgium. Univ Maastricht, Dept Rheumatol, Maastricht, Netherlands. OSTEOLIMB Working Grp, Limburgerhof, Germany. Univ Maastricht, Dept...

Reading radiographs in chronological order, in pairs or as single films has important implications for the discriminative power of rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials (1999)

Boonen, A., Boers, M., Kostense, P.

Objective. To determine the influence of reading series of films in chronological order, in pairs with unknown time sequence, or as single films, on precision and sensitivity to change. Methods. Two...

Randomised comparison of combined step-down prednisolone, methotrexate and sulphasalazine with sulphasalazine alone in early rheumatoid arthritis (1997)

Boers, M, Verhoeven, A C, Markusse, H M, Van De Laar, M A, Westhovens, Rene; U0008450, Van Denderen, J C, ...

BACKGROUND: The value of intensive combination therapy in early rheumatoid arthritis is unproven. In a multicentre, double-blind, randomised trial (COBRA), we compared the combination of...

CLUBBING IN HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION (1996)

BOONEN, A., SCHREY, G., VAN DER LINDEN, Sj.

We describe two patients who developed clubbing shortly after HIV seroconversion. None of them had the full syndroine of hypertropic osteoarthropathy. Other causes of clubbing are unlikely. We...

Risk factors which determine the long term outcome of Neodymium-YAG laser palliation of colorectal carcinoma (1989)

Boonen, A, ...

We have analysed the long term results of YAG laser palliation for incurable colorectal carcinoma in 88 patients. Although initial palliation was achieved in 82%, good palliation could only be...

Withdrawal from labour force due to work disability in patients with ankylosing spondylitis

Boonen, A, Chorus, A, Miedema, H, Landewe, R, Schouten, H, ...

OBJECTIVE—To investigate withdrawal from the labour force because of inability to work owing to ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and to determine the characteristics of patients with no job because of...

Employment, work disability, and work days lost in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: a cross sectional study of Dutch patients

Boonen, A, Chorus, A, Miedema, H

OBJECTIVE—To evaluate employment status, work disability, and work days lost in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS).
METHODS—A questionnaire was sent to 709 patients with AS aged 16-60....

Work status and productivity costs due to ankylosing spondylitis: comparison of three European countries

Boonen, A, Landewe, R, Spoorenberg, A, Schouten, H, Rutten-Van, M, ...

Objective: To compare work disability, sick leave, and productivity costs due to ankylosing spondylitis (AS) of three European countries.

Employment perspectives of patients with ankylosing spondylitis

Chorus, A, Boonen, A, Miedema, H

Objectives: To assess the labour market position of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) in relation to disease duration and to identify potential factors in relation to withdrawal from the...

Quality of life and work in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis of working age

Chorus, A, Miedema, H, Boonen, A

Objective: To investigate the relationship between work and quality of life (QOL) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) aged 16–59.

Disease activity and health status in rheumatoid arthritis: a case-control comparison between Norway and Lithuania

Dadoniene, J, Uhlig, T, Stropuviene, S, Venalis, A, Boonen, A, Kvien, T

Objective: To compare disease characteristics and health status in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from two countries, Norway and Lithuania.

Direct costs of ankylosing spondylitis and its determinants: an analysis among three European countries

Boonen, A, Landewe, R, Guillemin, F, Rutten-van, M, Dougados, M, ...

Objective: To assess direct costs associated with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). To determine which variables, including country, predict costs.

Costs of ankylosing spondylitis in three European countries: the patient's perspective

Boonen, A, Landewe, R, Guillemin, F, Spoorenberg, A, Schouten, H, ...

Objective: To assess a patient's out of pocket costs, income loss, time consumption, and quality of life (QoL) due to ankylosing spondylitis (AS) in three European countries and to assess variables...

Ankylosing spondylitis: an overview

Sieper, J, Braun, J, Rudwaleit, M, Boonen, A, Zink, A

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a complex, potentially debilitating disease that is insidious in onset, progressing to radiological sacroiliitis over several years. Patients with symptomatic AS lose...

Is avoidant coping independent of disease status and stable over time in patients with ankylosing spondylitis?

Boonen, A, Landewe, R, Chorus, A, Van Lankveld, W, Miedema, H, ...

Objective: To determine whether avoidant coping in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is independent of disease status and whether it is stable over time.

Large differences in cost of illness and wellbeing between patients with fibromyalgia, chronic low back pain, or ankylosing spondylitis

Boonen, A, Van Tubergen, A, Goossens, M, Severens, J, ...

Objective: To compare the cost of illness of three musculoskeletal conditions in relation to general wellbeing.

Willingness of patients with ankylosing spondylitis to pay for inpatient treatment is influenced by the treatment environment and expectations of improvement

Boonen, A, Severens, J, Van Tubergen, A, Landewe, R, Bonsel, G, ...

Methods: 120 patients participating in a randomised trial comparing 3 weeks' treatment in a spa resort in Austria or in the Netherlands with a control group completed a WTP questionnaire before and...

Productivity costs among patients with rheumatoid arthritis: the influence of methods and sources to value loss of productivity

Verstappen, S, Boonen, A, Verkleij, H, Bijlsma, J, Buskens, E, Jacobs, J, ...

Objective: To assess productivity costs incurred by rheumatoid arthritis, comprising paid as well as household productivity costs, from a societal perspective, using different methods.