The new ACR/EULAR classification criteria for RA: How are the new criteria performing in the clinic?

Rheumatology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 51, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2012, Pages

  Bykerk, Vivian P ^a,b   Massarotti, Elena M ^c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

ACR EULAR classification criteria; Fibromyalgia; Persistent synovitis; Radiographic progression; Rheumatoid arthritis; Under overdiagnosis of RA

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EUROPEAN LEAGUE AGAINST RHEUMATISM CLASSIFICATION CRITERIA; GOLD STANDARD; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; JOINT BIOPSY; MORNING STIFFNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EUROPE; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870941110     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kes280     Document Type: Article

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