The Survey Diagnostic Criteria of Fibromyalgia Syndrome—Results From the German Fibromyalgia Syndrome Consumer Reports

Winfried Häuser and colleagues „assessed feasibility within a survey study and determined the concordance rates of FMS diagnosis according to survey, clinical and ACR 1990 criteria (convergent validity).” The concordance rate of survey and ACR 1990 criteria was 76.3%, which was comparable to the concordance rate of 75.2%, published by Katz (A&R 54(1): 2006).
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The Survey Diagnostic Criteria of Fibromyalgia Syndrome—Results From the German Fibromyalgia Syndrome Consumer Reports.
Winfried Häuser1, Eva Jung1 and Frederick Wolfe2.
1Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, 2National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, KS
Conclusion: The consumers reports study demonstrates the feasibility of survey diagnostic criteria in a patient survey of established or suspected FMS. The concordance rate of survey and ACR 1990 criteria was comparable to published data (75.2%) (Katz, A&R 54(1): 2006) and of defined clinical criteria and ACR 1990 criteria (86.6%) (HSˇuser, Clin J Pain 26(6): 2010). Survey criteria were designed to differ from the ACR 1990 classification criteria, and most disagreements were due to TP-counts _11 in patients meeting survey criteria. Feasibility and validity within a population survey needs to be determined.