New ACR EULAR guidelines for systemic sclerosis classification

Current Rheumatology Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Johnson, Sindhu R ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

1000Minds; Bayesian; Classification; Classification criteria; Clinical epidemiology; Cohort; Conjoint analysis; Delphi; Forced choice; Misclassification; Mixed connective tissue disease; Multicriteria decision analysis; Nominal group technique; Scleroderma; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY;

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY AND EUROPEAN LEAGUE AGAINST RHEUMATISM; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG FIBROSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRELIMINARY CRITERIA FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; REVIEW; SCLERODERMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SSC CLASSIFICATION CRITERIA; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; VASCULAR DISEASE; VERY EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; CONFLICT; IMMUNOLOGY; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

AUTOANTIBODIES; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84928346702     PISSN: 15233774     EISSN: 15346307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11926-015-0506-3     Document Type: Review

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