Associations Between Classification Criteria Items in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.
Zahi ToumaRicard CerveraRalph BrinksValentina LorenzoniChiara TaniBimba F HoyerKaren H CostenbaderGian Domenico SebastianiSandra V NavarraEloisa S BonfaRosalind Ramsey-GoldmanSara K TedeschiThomas DörnerSindhu R JohnsonMartin AringerMarta Moscanull nullPublished in: Arthritis care & research (2020)
Some of the candidate SLE criteria cluster within domains. Given these interrelationships, multiple criteria within a domain should not be independently counted. These results are important to consider for the structure of new SLE classification criteria.