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.
The ACR has also developed a Bibliography of Criteria, Guidelines, and Health Status Assessments Used in Rheumatology.
Sjögren's Syndrome Classification Criteria
The ACR has approved Classification Criteria for Sjögren's Syndrome, which will be published in the April 2012 issue of Arthritis Care & Research.
PMR Classification Criteria
The ACR and EULAR have collaborated to develop PMR classification criteria, which are published in the April 2012 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism.
Childhood Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Classification
2010 ACR/EULAR RA Classification Criteria
Excerpt (2010) | Tree Format (2010) | Complete Article (2010)
| 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
2011 ACR/EULAR RA Remission Criteria
Excerpt (2011) | Complete Article (2011) | 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
