To the Editor:
The interesting report of Coury and colleagues1, and thoughtful accompanying editorial by Mäkinen and Hannonen2, call attention to the important problem of fibromyalgia (FM) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
Patient self-report questionnaire data for pain, fatigue, or patient global estimate, the patient measure that is included in the DAS283, are usually high in patients with FM or FM and RA. The self-report scores often appear to health professionals disproportionately high in patients with FM and RA relative to “objective” data from …
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