First external validation of sensitivity and specificity of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR)/American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification criteria for idiopathic inflammatory myopathies with a Japanese cohort

Masatoshi Jinnin,Yoshinao Muro,Takashi Kanda,Akio Matsubara ,Atsushi Kawakami,Tatsuya Atsumi,Manabu Fujimoto,Hajime Sano,Kazuhiko Yamamoto,Yasushi Kawaguchi,Takayuki Sumida,Jun Shimizu,Yoshiya Tanaka,Shoichiro Ishihara,Toshihide Mimura,Hirofumi Amano,Tsutomu Takeuchi,Tsuneyo Mimori,Akio Ohta ,Hitoshi Kohsaka

doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2019-215488

Abstract

ObjectiveTo externally validate the performance of the new European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR)/American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification criteria set for idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) with a Japanese cohort.MethodsThis study...

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