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2016 Revisions to the 2010/2011 fibromyalgia diagnostic criteria
Frederick Wolfe,Daniel J. Clauw,Mary Ann Fitzcharles,Don L. Goldenberg,Don L. Goldenberg,Winfried Häuser,Robert L. Katz,Philip J. Mease,Anthony S. Russell,Irwin Jon Russell,Brian Walitt +10 more
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A (2016) revision to the 2010/2011 fibromyalgia criteria combines physician and questionnaire criteria, minimizes misclassification of regional pain disorders, and eliminates the previously confusing recommendation regarding diagnostic exclusions.About:
This article is published in Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism.The article was published on 2016-12-01. It has received 997 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fibromyalgia & Medical diagnosis.read more
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Nociplastic pain: towards an understanding of prevalent pain conditions
Mary Ann Fitzcharles,Steven P. Cohen,Steven P. Cohen,Daniel J. Clauw,Geoffrey O. Littlejohn,Chie Usui,Winfried Häuser +6 more
TL;DR: Nociplastic pain this paper is a third category of pain that is mechanistically distinct from nociceptive pain, which is caused by ongoing inflammation and damage of tissues, and neuropathic pain, caused by nerve damage.
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Fibromyalgia: an update on clinical characteristics, aetiopathogenesis and treatment
TL;DR: Different clinical aspects of fibromyalgia are outlined, including the burden, diagnosis and treatment of this condition, and various hypotheses of fibroitalgia etiopathogenesis are discussed.
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AAPT Diagnostic Criteria for Fibromyalgia.
Lesley M. Arnold,Robert M. Bennett,Leslie J. Crofford,Linda E Dean,Daniel J. Clauw,Don L. Goldenberg,Mary Ann Fitzcharles,Eduardo dos Santos Paiva,Roland Staud,Piercarlo Sarzi-Puttini,Dan Buskila,Gary J. Macfarlane +11 more
TL;DR: The ACTTION-APS FM taxonomy provides an evidence-based diagnostic system for FM that includes diagnostic criteria, common features, comorbidities, consequences, and putative mechanisms and might improve the recognition of FM in clinical practice.
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Fibromyalgia diagnosis and biased assessment: Sex, prevalence and bias.
TL;DR: The perception of fibromyalgia as almost exclusively a women’s disorder is not supported by data in unbiased studies, and the use of 2016 fibromy nostalgia criteria for clinical diagnosis and epidemiology is recommended because of its updated scoring and generalized pain requirement.
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The American College of Rheumatology 1990 Criteria for the Classification of Fibromyalgia. Report of the Multicenter Criteria Committee.
Frederick Wolfe,Hugh A. Smythe,Muhammad B. Yunus,Robert M. Bennett,Claire Bombardier,Don L. Goldenberg,Peter Tugwell,Stephen M. Campbell,Micha Abeles,Patricia Clark,Adel G. Fam,Stephen J. Farber,Justus J. Fiechtner,C. Michael Franklin,Robert A. Gatter,Daniel Hamaty,James A. Lessard,Alan S. Lichtbroun,Alfonse T. Masi,Glenn A. McCain,W. John Reynolds,Thomas J. Romano,I. Jon Russell,Robert P. Sheon +23 more
TL;DR: Criteria for the classification of fibromyalgia are widespread pain in combination with 2) tenderness at 11 or more of the 18 specific tender point sites, and no exclusions are made for the presence of concomitant radiographic or laboratory abnormalities.
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The American College of Rheumatology preliminary diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia and measurement of symptom severity.
Frederick Wolfe,Daniel J. Clauw,Mary Ann Fitzcharles,Don L. Goldenberg,Robert S. Katz,Philip J. Mease,Anthony S. Russell,I. Jon Russell,John B. Winfield,Muhammad B. Yunus +9 more
TL;DR: To develop simple, practical criteria for clinical diagnosis of fibromyalgia that are suitable for use in primary and specialty care and that do not require a tender point examination, and to provide a severity scale for characteristic fibromyalgic symptoms.
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The cost of dichotomising continuous variables
TL;DR: The impact of converting continuous data to two groups (dichotomising) is considered, as this is the most common approach in clinical research.
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Primary fibromyalgia (fibrositis): Clinical study of 50 patients with matched normal controls
TL;DR: It is shown that primary fibromyalgia is a poorly recognized condition and should be suspected by the presence of its own characteristic features, and not diagnosed just by the absence of other recognizable conditions.
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Illnesses you have to fight to get: facts as forces in uncertain, emergent illnesses.
TL;DR: Examination of how facts are talked about and experienced in struggles over these emergent, contested illnesses in the US finds that sufferers describe their experiences of being denied healthcare and legitimacy through bureaucratic categories of exclusion as dependent upon their lack of biological facts.
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