The American College of Rheumatology Preliminary Diagnostic Criteria for Fibromyalgia and Measurement of Symptom Severity
By F. Wolfe, Daniel J. Clauw, M. Fitzcharles, D. Goldenberg, R. Katz, P. Mease, A. Russell, I. Russell, J. Winfield, M. Yunus. Arthritis care & research, 2010
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Subfields: Psychiatry and Mental health, Rheumatology
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- 2016 Revisions to the 2010/2011 fibromyalgia diagnostic criteria. (2016, methodology): “Thus, in evaluating external data that includes the 1990 criteria, a level of 85% agreement, as observed in the 2010 study [2], can be interpreted as very close agreement.”
- Fibromyalgia Criteria and Severity Scales for Clinical and Epidemiological Studies: A Modification of the ACR Preliminary Diagnostic Criteria for Fibromyalgia (2011, positive): “The diagnostic criteria for FM are satisfied if the following 3 conditions are met: (1) the Widespread Pain Index (WPI) ≥ 7 and the Symptom Severity Score (SS) ≥ 5, or the WPI is 3–6 and the SS ≥ 9; (2) symptoms have been present at a similar level for at least 3 months; and (3) the patient does not”
- Prevalence of chronic pain in the UK: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population studies (2016, background): “…to the practical restrictions of formally diagnosing a patient with fi bromyalgia (requiring a history and examination in order to exclude alternative causes for widespread pain 14 ), only one study 41 was able to provide comprehensive data from populations representative of the general population.”