Sentence examples for measures of remission from inspiring English sources

23 24 Abatacept plus MTX achieved robust efficacy versus MTX, as demonstrated by multiple measures of remission and HAQ-DI, and consistent structural benefits.

[ 2, 3] While it makes intuitive sense to utilize instruments that are well characterized in clinical research, none have been definitively validated as measures of remission.

This review, however, was limited by the quality of the available literature where follow-up varied, there was no consistent definition of remission, and biochemical measures of remission were usually not reported.

As would be expected, ACR response rates and measures of remission are lower in the latter population although, even with this more conservative approach, one fifth of patients achieved DAS28 (ESR) remission after 5 years of CZP treatment.

The DAS-defined remission cut-off of <2.6, although corresponding to the American Rheumatology Association definition of clinical remission in RA, 33 has now been replaced with other measures of remission, 34 such as SDAI and Boolean remission, which are also reported here.

Hirata et al 26 observed an association of the MBDA score and its 1-year change with different clinical outcomes and Van der Milm-Van Mil et al 23 demonstrated that remission based on the MBDA score was associated with limited RP in patients with established RA on disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) therapy compared with other clinical measures of remission.

Other potential limitations of the study include that fact that we only assessed published studies written in English and that we used a conservative measure of remission rate.

A conservative measure of remission rate was calculated from each study using an intent-to-treat analysis [ 28], even if this method was not used in the study.

The authors acknowledge this definition is " more stringent than the most widely used consensus measure of remission" (p. 1298), presumably so as to ensure that participants really were recovered and not just in remission.

The process of developing and testing a measure of remission based on threshold levels of selected PANSS items should be differentiated from previous efforts to create shortened versions of existing scales (e.g. the SF-12, derived from the SF-36).

CDAI and SDAI are considered the appropriate composite measures for definition of remission by ACR and EULAR.