Affiliation:
1. Department of Medicine at St Vincent's Hospital, University of Melbourne
2. Department of Rheumatology, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Abstract
Purpose of review
The aim of this study was to summarize the composite outcome measures available to assess disease damage, severity and treatment response in systemic sclerosis (SSc).
Recent findings
There have been many recent efforts to rigorously develop and validate composite outcome measures to assess the totality of the impact of SSc on patients. All initiatives have used both consensus and data-driven methods. Recently developed are a SSc-specific damage index, a patient-reported disease impact questionnaire (ScleroID) and a treatment response index (ACR-CRISS).
Summary
Multiorgan, composite measures are being increasingly applied to assess treatment efficacy in clinical trials. Although a fully validated, disease-specific composite measure is not yet available, there has been significant recent progress towards developing measures of treatment response, damage and overall impact of SSc for application in randomized controlled trials.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)