RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Kuznar, Wayne
T1 The ACR/EULAR Classification Criteria for SSc
JF MD Conference Express
YR 2012
FD SAGE Publications
VO 12
IS 19
SP 32
OP 33
DO 10.1177/155989771219026
UL http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/12/19/32.abstract
AB Proposed new classification criteria developed for systemic sclerosis (scleroderma; SSc) have improved sensitivity and specificity compared with the 1980 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) SSc criteria and should allow for more patients to be classified as having SSc. The proposed classification criteria are preliminary and need to be reviewed by the ACR and the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR), but the authors do not anticipate they will be altered from the findings presented here.