Introduction: The 1987 ACR classification criteria, generally used as ingress criteria to clinical trials and observational studies. In 2010, fresh categorization criteria for RA were built up. Objective To measure conformity between 1987 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and 2010 ACR/European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) criteria.
Method: The present study is based on 290 clinically suspected RA patients. Cross-sectional study design was used. Clinically suspected cases were referred by different OPD’s of Sir Sunderlal Hospital for screening. About 2-ml of blood samples were collected in plain vial from each patient and each sample were tested by the laboratory technician.
Result: Level of agreement showed slight agreement between diagnostic tests in which 7 subjects displayed positive as agreed by both diagnostic tests. In addition, Both tests agreed that there were 216 subjects who displayed negative. Therefore, there were 67 individuals for whom the both tests could not agree on their results.
Conclusion: The ACR/EULAR criteria carry out significantly better than the 1987 ACR criteria for forecasting opinion of RA
Impact Factor
2022: 6.012
This work is licensed under a