Listed below are a number of ACR approved criteria sets. More information about the purpose of criteria sets, their development and validation, and the role of the ACR in adopting them is available here 
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The ACR has also developed a Bibliography of Criteria, Guidelines, and Health Status Assessments Used in Rheumatology.
Childhood Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Classification
2010 ACR/EULAR RA Classification Criteria
Excerpt (2010) | Tree Format (2010) | Complete Article (2010)
| NEW FORMAT! Slides
Other RA Classification Criteria
Excerpt (1987) | Tree Format (1987) | Complete Article (1987)
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Global Functional Status - Excerpt (1992) | Complete Article (1992)
Response
- A Proposed Revision to the ACR20: The Hybrid Measure of American College of Rheumatology Response (2007)
- European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Response Criteria [also called the WHO/ILAR Core Data Set] (1996)
- The ACR Preliminary Core Set of Measures for RA Clinical Trials (1993)
- Modified Disease Activity Scores that Include Twenty-Eight Joint Counts (RA) (1995)
- A Self-Administered Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Index (RADAI) for Epidemiologic Research (1995)
- Preliminary Criteria for Clinical Remission in Arthritis (1981)
- The ACR 1991 Revised Criteria for the Classification of Global Functional Status in Rheumatoid Arthritis (1992)
- ACR Preliminary Definition Of Improvement In Rheumatoid Arthritis (20-50-70) (1995)
- Analysis of Improvement of Individual Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Treated with DMARDs, Based on the Findings in Patients Treated with Placebo (1990)
REMISSION
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NEW! 2011 ACR/EULAR RA Remission Criteria
Excerpt (2011) | Complete Article (2011) | NEW FORMAT! Slides
Classification Criteria for Other Diseases
- Churg-Strauss Syndrome - 1990
Excerpt | Tree Format - Fibromyalgia
- 1990 Classification Criteria
Excerpt | Complete Article - 2010 Preliminary Diagnostic Criteria
Excerpt | Complete Article
- 1990 Classification Criteria
- Giant Cell (Temporal) Arteritis - 1990
Excerpt | Tree Format - Gout
Tree Format - Henoch-Schoenlein Purpura - 1990
Excerpt | Tree Format - Hypersensitivity Vasculitis - 1990
Excerpt | Tree Format | Tree Format Subsets - Osteoarthritis
- Osteoarthritis of the Hand - 1990
Excerpt | Complete Article - Osteoarthritis of the Hip - 1991
Excerpt | Tree Format | Complete Article - Osteoarthritis of the Knee – 1986
Excerpt | Complete Article
- Osteoarthritis of the Hand - 1990
- Polyarteritis Nodosa - 1990
Excerpt | Tree Format
- Scleroderma
Systemic Sclerosis - 1980 - SLE
Excerpt (1982) | 1997 Revision in Letter to A&R Editor | SLICC ACR Damage Index (1996) | 1997 Update of 1982 Revised Criteria for Classification of SLE - Takayasu Arteritis - 1990
Excerpt | Tree Format - Wegener's Granulomatosis – 1990 (now known as Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis)
Excerpt | Tree Format
