Ongoing and Published Initiatives

Scroll down this page to find a list of ongoing and published initiatives. Ongoing initiatives are placed under published initiatives as soon as official publication takes place. Each published initiative carries the name of the initiative, the convenor, the month and year of publication as well as a link to the final, published initiative.

Ongoing Initiatives 

• Development of EULAR/ACR Criteria for Disease Activity and Response in Giant Cell Arteritis
  Convenor: Dejaco, Langford
  
  
• ACR-EULAR Development of Classification Criteria for Immune Related Adverse Events: Inflammatory Arthritis
  Convenor: A.Meara, M.Kostine
  
  
• EULAR Points to Consider on risk stratification of populations for RA prevention studies: new inclusion of ACR collaboration and population-based approaches to risk stratification
  Convenor: K. Deane, K. Mankia, A. Van der Helm, K. Raza
  
  
• EULAR-ACR Classification Criteria for Antisynthetase Syndrome (CLASS)
  Convenor: Aggarwal (ACR), Cavagna (EULAR)  
  
  
• Criteria for Treatment Response for ANCA‐Associated Vasculitis
  Convenor: Peter Merkel, Gunnar Tomasson  
   

Published Initiatives

• EULAR recommendations for the management of psoriatic arthritis with pharmacological therapies: 2023 update 
  Published: 18 March, 2024
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• 2023 ACR/EULAR Antiphospholipid Syndrome Classification Criteria 
  Published: 28 August, 2023
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• The 2023 ACR/EULAR Classification Criteria for Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease (CPDD)
  Published: 26 July, 2023
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• The 2022 EULAR/ACR points to consider at the early stages of diagnosis and management of suspected haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis/macrophage activation syndrome (HLH/MAS)
  Published: 24 July, 2023
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• American College of Rheumatology/EULAR remission criteria for rheumatoid arthritis: 2022 revision
  Published: 24 October, 2022
  Convenor: Paul Studenic
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• Recommendations for the management of the IL-1-mediated Autoinflammatory Diseases,       CAPS (FCAS, MWS and NOMID/CINCA), TRAPS, MKD and DIRA
  Convenor: M. Gattorno, E. Demirkaya, R. Goldbach-Mansky
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• Recommendations for the management of the Autoinflammatory Type-I Interferonopathies
  Published: 22 February, 2022
  Convenor: R. Goldbach-Mansky, E. Demirkaya
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• 2022 American College of Rheumatology/European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology Classification Criteria for Microscopic Polyangiitis
  Published: 2 February, 2022
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• 2022 American College of Rheumatology/European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology Classification Criteria for Eosinophilic Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis
  Published: 2 February, 2022
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• 2022 American College of Rheumatology/European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology Classification Criteria for Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis
  Published: 2 February, 2022
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• 2016 American college of rheumatology/European league against rheumatism criteria for minimal moderate, and major clinical response in juvenile dermatomyositis
  Convenor: Lisa Rider, Frederik W. Miller
  Published: March 2018
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• 2017 European League Against Rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology classification criteria for adult and juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies and their major subgroups
  Convenor: Ingrid Lundberg, Lisa Rider
  Published ARD: October 2017
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  Published RMDOpen: 14 November 2017
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• 2016 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism classification criteria for primary Sjögren's syndrome
  Convenor: Simon Bowman, Caroline Shiboski
  Published ARD: October 2016
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• 2016 Classification Criteria for Macrophage Activation Syndrome Complicating Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A European League Against Rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology/Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation Collaborative Initiative 
  Convenor: Angelo Ravelli, Randy Cron
  Published: February 2016
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• EULAR-ACR recommendations for the management of polymyalgia rheumatica 
  Convenor: Bhaskar Dasgupta, Eric Matteson
  Published: September 2015
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• ACR-EULAR classification criteria for gout
  Convenor: William Taylor, Tuhina Neogi, Tim Jansen
  Published: September 2015
  Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2015;74:
  1789-1798
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• 2013 classification criteria for systemic sclerosis: an American college of rheumatology (ACR)/European league against rheumatism (EULAR) collaborative initiative
  Convenor: Frank van den Hoogen, Janet Pope
  Published: October 2013
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• Evaluation of best practice for reducing delay in diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory arthritis
  Convenor: Paul Emery, Vivian Bykerk
  Published: April 2012
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• ACR-EULAR recommendations for determining remission in rheumatoid arthritis
  Convenor: David Felson, Maarten Boers
  Published: January 2011
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• ACR-EULAR classification criteria for RA
  Convenor: Gillian Hawker, Daniel Aletaha
  Published: September 2010
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• EULAR-ACR points to consider for reporting disease activity in RA clinical trials
  Convenor: Daniel Aletaha, Daniel Felson
  Published: October 2008
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