2013 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism Classification Criteria for Systemic Sclerosis Outperform the 1980 Criteria: Data From the Canadian Scleroderma Research Group

• Published in: Arthritis care & research (2010) Vol. 67; no. 4; pp. 582 - 587
• Main Authors: Alhajeri, Hebah, Hudson, Marie, Fritzler, Marvin, Pope, Janet, Tatibouet, Solène, Markland, Janet, Robinson, David, Jones, Niall, Khalidi, Nader, Docherty, Peter, Kaminska, Elzbieta, Masetto, Ariel, Sutton, Evelyn, Mathieu, Jean‐Pierre, Ligier, Sophie, Grodzicky, Tamara, LeClercq, Sharon, Thorne, Carter, Gyger, Geneviève, Smith, Douglas, Fortin, Paul R., Larché, Maggie, Baron, Murray
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.04.2015
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Canada - epidemiology; Cohort Studies; Cross-Sectional Studies; Europe - epidemiology; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Rheumatic Diseases - classification; Rheumatic Diseases - diagnosis; Rheumatic Diseases - epidemiology; Rheumatology - classification; Rheumatology - standards; Scleroderma, Localized - classification; Scleroderma, Localized - diagnosis; Scleroderma, Localized - epidemiology; Scleroderma, Systemic - classification; Scleroderma, Systemic - diagnosis; Scleroderma, Systemic - epidemiology; Societies, Medical - standards; United States - epidemiology; Young Adult; Canada; United States; Europe
• ISSN: 2151-464X; 2151-4658; 2151-4658
• DOI: 10.1002/acr.22451

Objective The goal of this study was to determine the sensitivity of the new 2013 classification criteria for systemic sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma) in an independent cohort of SSc subjects and to assess the contribution of individual items of the criteria to the overall sensitivity. Methods SSc subj...