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1982 • 20,275 citations

The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis

1988 • 19,632 citations

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1996 • 8,991 citations

Revised Criteria for the Classification of Rheumatoid Arthritis

1990 • 7,730 citations

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1978 • 1,699 citations

The diagnostic properties of rheumatoid arthritis antibodies recognizing a cyclic citrullinated peptide

2000 • 1,444 citations

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1968 • 1,360 citations

The Threshold Approach to Clinical Decision Making

1980 • 1,279 citations

EFFECTS OF HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE AND SULPHASALAZINE ON PROGRESSION OF JOINT DAMAGE IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

1989 • 568 citations

Factors predicting response to treatment in rheumatoid arthritis: The importance of disease duration

2000 • 490 citations

Therapeutic Decision Making: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

1975 • 486 citations

The Effectiveness of Early Treatment with “Second-Line” Antirheumatic Drugs

1996 • 465 citations

How many joints in the hands and wrists should be included in a score of radiologic abnormalities used to assess rheumatoid arthritis?

1985 • 419 citations

Longterm mortality outcome in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: early presenters continue to do well.

1998 • 327 citations

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis benefit from early 2nd line therapy: 5 year followup of a prospective double blind placebo controlled study.

1995 • 316 citations

ORDINAL REGRESSION MODELS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC DATA

1989 • 310 citations

Evaluating Diagnostic Tests with Imperfect Standards

1990 • 215 citations

Genetic typing of patients with inflammatory arthritis at presentation can be used to predict outcome

1994 • 187 citations

The performance of the 1987 ARA classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis in a population based cohort of patients with early inflammatory polyarthritis. American Rheumatism Association.

1998 • 180 citations

Diagnosis and course of early-onset arthritis: results of a special early arthritis clinic compared to routine patient care

1998 • 170 citations

Alternative models for ordinal logistic regression

1994 • 162 citations

What price perfection? Calibration and discrimination of clinical prediction models

1992 • 154 citations

DIFFERENTIATING PERSISTENT FROM SELF-LIMITING SYMMETRICAL SYNOVITIS IN AN EARLY ARTHRITIS CLINIC

1993 • 142 citations

The prognosis of rheumatoid arthritis and undifferentiated polyarthritis syndrome in the clinic: a study of 1141 patients.

1993 • 133 citations

NATURAL REMISSION IN INFLAMMATORY POLYARTHRITIS: ISSUES OF DEFINITION AND PREDICTION

1995 • 127 citations

Improved functional outcome in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis treated with intramuscular gold: results of a five year prospective study

1998 • 116 citations

THE GENETIC BASIS OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

1992 • 115 citations

HLA-DQ-associated predisposition to and dominant HLA-DR-associated protection against rheumatoid arthritis

1999 • 114 citations

When does rheumatoid arthritis begin and why do we need to know?

2000 • 74 citations

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1997 • 65 citations

Presence of psoriasis does not influence the presentation or short-term outcome of patients with early inflammatory polyarthritis.

1997 • 64 citations

Inflammatory polyarthritis in the community is not a benign disease: predicting functional disability one year after presentation.

1996 • 62 citations

Quantitative microfocal radiography detects changes in erosion area in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis treated with myocrisine.

1993 • 62 citations

Diagnostic evaluation of classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis and reactive arthritis in an early synovitis outpatient clinic

1999 • 49 citations

PREDICTORS OF THE LONG-TERM OUTCOME OF EARLY SYNOVITIS: A 5-YEAR FOLLOW-UP STUDY

1991 • 49 citations

QUANTITATIVE DETECTION OF CLASS-SPECIFIC RHEUMATOID FACTORS USING MOUSE MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES AND THE BIOTIN/STREPTAVIDIN ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM

1989 • 40 citations

Autoantibodies predicting the outcome of rheumatoid arthritis: evaluation in two subsets of patients according to severity of radiographic damage

1997 • 37 citations

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1992 • 31 citations

Serum sulphydryl levels in early synovitis.

1982 • 29 citations

Prognostic criteria in rheumatoid arthritis: can we predict which patients will require specific anti-rheumatoid treatment?

1997 • 23 citations

OSTEOARTHRITIS IN WEIGHT-BEARING WRISTS?

1993 • 22 citations

Diagnostic evaluation of classification criteria for RA and reactive arthritis

2000 • 4 citations