A Narrowing Mortality Gap: Temporal Trends of Cause‐Specific Mortality in a National Matched Cohort Study in US Veterans With Rheumatoid Arthritis

To examine temporal trends in all‐cause and cause‐specific mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).

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