The challenge of using the rheumatoid arthritis diagnostic criteria in clinical practice

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 271-275

  Corrao, Salvatore ^a,b   Argano, Christiano ^a   Calvo, Luigi ^b   Pistone, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b National Relevance Hospital Trust   (Italy)

Author keywords

ACR criteria; ACR EULAR criteria; Early rheumatoid arthritis; Likelihood ratio; Probabilistic clinical reasoning; Sensitivity and specificity

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE; CYCLOPEPTIDE;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BLOOD; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANTIBODIES; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 84939999321     PISSN: 18280447     EISSN: 19709366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-015-1206-8     Document Type: Editorial

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