Assessment of damage in vasculitis: expert ratings of damage.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Current measures of damage in vasculitis do not account for the possibility that some forms of damage may exert greater impact than others. As part of an international effort to revise how damage is quantified in vasculitis clinical research, an exercise was performed to measure expert ratings of damage items.

Methods

Members of the Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium and European Vasculitis Study Group were given a list of 129 items of damage related to WG and microscopic polyangiitis (MPA). Participants were asked to rate each item of damage on an integer scale from 0 to 10, where 10 represented the most severe form of damage and 0 indicated 'no impact'.

Results

A multidisciplinary panel of 50 investigators from North America, Europe and Australia-New

SUBMITTER: Seo P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2722812 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature