PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Dafna D. Gladman
AU  - Philip S. Helliwell
AU  - Majed Khraishi
AU  - Kristina Callis Duffin
AU  - Philip J. Mease
TI  - Dermatology Screening Tools: Project Update from the GRAPPA 2012 Annual Meeting
AID  - 10.3899/jrheum.130455
DP  - 2013 Aug 01
TA  - The Journal of Rheumatology
PG  - 1425--1427
VI  - 40
IP  - 8
4099  - http://www.jrheum.org/content/40/8/1425.short
4100  - http://www.jrheum.org/content/40/8/1425.full
SO  - J Rheumatol2013 Aug 01; 40
AB  - Several screening tools for early identification of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have been developed. While these tools had high sensitivity and specificity during their development and initial validation, it remained to be determined how they would function with widespread use. At the 2012 annual meeting of the Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA) in Stockholm, Sweden, these tools were compared for their utility when used to screen patients for PsA in clinics other than those in which they were developed. The screening tools did not perform as well as previously published, and members suggested new tools may need to be developed. An additional study of the prevalence of PsA in a large cohort of psoriasis patients, the PREPARE study, which investigated the use of screening questionnaires, was also presented.