Long-term sustained remission in a cohort study of patients with rheumatoid arthritis: choice of remission criteria.

Summary, in English

Remission is a widely accepted goal for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) but has to be sustained to arrest joint damage and disability. However, appropriate criteria for the assessment of sustained remission in long-term studies are not established. Therefore, we have compared the disease activity score calculated on 28 joints (DAS28) remission criterion, the Simplified Disease Activity Index less than 3.3 remission criterion (SDAI Cr) and the new Boolean-based set of criteria (Boolean Cr), and assessed the association of these criteria with radiographic and functional outcome.

• Author: Björn Svensson; Maria Andersson; Sidona-Valentina Bala; Kristina Forslind; Ingiäld Hafström
• Department/s: Rheumatology; Care in high technological environments
• Publishing year: 2013
• Language: English
• Pages: 003554-003554
• Publication/Series: BMJ Open
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 9
• Full text: - 1 MB; Download statistics
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24022393?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003554
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
• Topic: Other Clinical Medicine; Nursing; Rheumatology and Autoimmunity
• Status: Published
• Research group: Care in high technological environments
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 2044-6055