The ACR supports criteria development projects in different topic areas related to rheumatic disease.
Projects generally focus on classification, response, and remission criteria. The ACR has previously endorsed diagnostic criteria. This
article provides more detail on the differences between classification and diagnostic criteria, and why the ACR no longer endorses diagnostic criteria.
ACR-Endorsed Criteria
Below are a number of ACR-approved criteria sets. See information about the purpose of criteria sets, their development and validation, and the role of the ACR in adopting them. Also see the ACR Criteria Development Checklist.
Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus – Clinically Relevant Improvement in Children and Adolescents
2019 ACR Provisional Criteria for Clinically Relevant Improvement in Children and Adolescents with Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus – Global Flares
2018 ACR Provisional Criteria for Global Flares in Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Fibromyalgia
2010 Preliminary Diagnostic Criteria
1990 Classification Criteria
Gout Classification
2015 Gout Classification Criteria
1997 ARA Criteria
IgG4-Related Disease Classification
2019 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism Classification Criteria for IgG4-Related Disease
JIA Disease Activity Score Cutoffs
Definition and Validation of the American College of Rheumatology 2021 Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score Cutoffs for Disease Activity States in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
JRA Definition of Improvement
Macrophage Activation Syndrome Classification – Systemic JIA
2016 EULAR/ACR/PRINTO Classification Criteria for Macrophage Activation Syndrome Complicating Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Myositis Classification
2017 EULAR/ACR Classification Criteria for Adult and Juvenile Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies and Their Major Subgroups
Myositis Response
2016 ACR/EULAR Criteria for Minimal, Moderate, and Major Clinical Response in Adult Dermatomyositis and Polymyositis
2016 ACR/EULAR Criteria for Minimal, Moderate, and Major Clinical Response in Juvenile Dermatomyositis
Osteoarthritis Classification
Osteoarthritis of the Hand – 1990
Osteoarthritis of the Hip – 1991
Osteoarthritis of the Knee – 1986
Polymyalgia Rheumatica Classification
Rheumatoid Arthritis Classification
2010 ACR/EULAR RA Classification Criteria
Other RA Classification Criteria
- 1987 Rheumatoid Arthritis Classification
- 1992 Global Functional Status in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis Remission
2011 ACR/EULAR RA Remission Criteria
1981
Rheumatoid Arthritis Response
Sjögren's Syndrome Classification
2016 ACR/EULAR Sjögren's Syndrome Classification Criteria
2012 ACR Sjögren's Syndrome Classification Criteria
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Classification
2019 European League Against Rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology Classification Criteria for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Previous years
Systemic Sclerosis Composite Response Index
Early Diffuse Cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis
Systemic Sclerosis Classification
Vasculitis Classification
2022 ACR/EULAR Vasculitis Classification Criteria
- Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (GPA)
- Microscopic Polyangiitis (MPA)
- Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis
1990 Criteria for the Classification of Vasculitis
- Churg-Strauss Syndrome Classification
- Giant Cell (Temporal) Arteritis Classification
- Hypersensitivity Vasculitis Classification
- Polyarteritis Nodosa Classification
- Takayasu Arteritis Classification
- Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (formerly known as Wegener’s Granulomatosis)