Preliminary criteria for remission in rheumatoid arthritis

✍ Scribed by John T. Sharp

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 124 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-3591
• DOI: 10.1002/art.1780250920

✦ Synopsis

be considered as defining levels of activity which can be tested prospectively by patient followup to determine longterm outcome, both in assessing the natural history of the disease and its modification by modern treatment.

LETTERS

Preliminary criteria for remission in rheumatoid arthritis

To the Editor:

The report by the Subcommittee for Criteria of Remission in Rheumatoid Arthritis of the American Rheumatism Association (Preliminary criteria for clinical remission in rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum 24: 1308-13 15, 1981) represents a significant effort which is to be highly commended. I appreciate the sentiment of the physician who commented from the floor at the ARA meeting in Boston that no committee could tell him how to decide whether his patient was in remission, but his comment seems to me to have completely missed the point. Unless physicians A, B, C