EULAR Sjögren's syndrome disease activity index (ESSDAI): a user guide

Raphaèle Seror, Simon J Bowman, Pilar Brito-Zeron, Elke Theander, Hendrika Bootsma, Athanasios Tzioufas, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg, Manel Ramos-Casals, Thomas Dörner, Philippe Ravaud, Claudio Vitali, Xavier Mariette, Karsten Asmussen, Soren Jacobsen, Elena Bartoloni, Roberto Gerli, Johannes Wj Bijlsma, Aike A Kruize, Stefano Bombardieri, Arthur BookmanCees Kallenberg, Petra Meiners, Johan G Brun, Roland Jonsson, Roberto Caporali, Steven Carsons, Salvatore De Vita, Nicoletta Del Papa, Valerie Devauchelle, Alain Saraux, Anne-Laure Fauchais, Jean Sibilia, Eric Hachulla, Gabor Illei, David Isenberg, Adrian Jones, Menelaos Manoussakis, Thomas Mandl, Lennart Jacobsson, Frederic Demoulins, Carlomaurizio Montecucco, Wan-Fai Ng, Sumusu Nishiyama, Roald Omdal, Ann Parke, Sonja Praprotnik, Matjia Tomsic, Elizabeth Price, Hal Scofield, Kathy L Sivils, Josef Smolen, Roser Solans Laqué, Serge Steinfeld, Nurhan Sutcliffe, Takayuki Sumida, Guido Valesini, Valeria Valim, Frederick B Vivino, Cristina Vollenweider

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Abstract

The EULAR Sjögren's syndrome (SS) disease activity index (ESSDAI) is a systemic disease activity index that was designed to measure disease activity in patients with primary SS. With the growing use of the ESSDAI, some domains appear to be more challenging to rate than others. The ESSDAI is now in use as a gold standard to measure disease activity in clinical studies, and as an outcome measure, even a primary outcome measure, in current randomised clinical trials. Therefore, ensuring an accurate and reproducible rating of each domain, by providing a more detailed definition of each domain, has emerged as an urgent need. The purpose of the present article is to provide a user guide for the ESSDAI. This guide provides definitions and precisions on the rating of each domain. It also includes some minor improvement of the score to integrate advance in knowledge of disease manifestations. This user guide may help clinicians to use the ESSDAI, and increase the reliability of rating and consequently of the ability to detect true changes over time. This better appraisal of ESSDAI items, along with the recent definition of disease activity levels and minimal clinically important change, will improve the assessment of patients with primary SS and facilitate the demonstration of effectiveness of treatment for patients with primary SS.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummere000022
TidsskriftRMD Open: Rheumatic & Musculoskeletal Diseases
Vol/bind1
Udgave nummer1
Sider (fra-til)1-9
Antal sider9
ISSN2056-5933
DOI
StatusUdgivet - jan. 2015

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