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Spondyloarthritis
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Evaluation of multiple referral strategies for axial spondyloarthritis in the SPondyloArthritis Caught Early (SPACE) cohort Ozair Abawi, Rosaline van den Berg, Désirée van der Heijde, Floris A van Gaalen To cite: Abawi O, van den Berg R, van der Heijde D, et al. Evaluation of multiple referral strategies for axial spondyloarthritis in the SPondyloArthritis Caught Early (SPACE) cohort. RMD Open 2017;3:e000389. doi:10.1136/rmdopen-2016000389 ▸ Prepublication history and additional material for this paper is available online. To view these files please visit the journal online (http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ rmdopen-2016-000389). Received 24 October 2016 Revised 2 February 2017 Accepted 24 February 2017
Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Floris A van Gaalen; [email protected]
ABSTRACT Background: Several models have been proposed to refer patients with possible axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) to a rheumatologist. Our aim was to evaluate performance of these models in a single cohort. Methods: 13 referral models found in the literature were evaluated in the Leiden SPondyloArthritis Caught Early (SPACE) cohort, which includes patients with back pain (≥3 months, ≤2 years, onset
Spondyloarthritis
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Evaluation of multiple referral strategies for axial spondyloarthritis in the SPondyloArthritis Caught Early (SPACE) cohort Ozair Abawi, Rosaline van den Berg, Désirée van der Heijde, Floris A van Gaalen To cite: Abawi O, van den Berg R, van der Heijde D, et al. Evaluation of multiple referral strategies for axial spondyloarthritis in the SPondyloArthritis Caught Early (SPACE) cohort. RMD Open 2017;3:e000389. doi:10.1136/rmdopen-2016000389 ▸ Prepublication history and additional material for this paper is available online. To view these files please visit the journal online (http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ rmdopen-2016-000389). Received 24 October 2016 Revised 2 February 2017 Accepted 24 February 2017
Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Floris A van Gaalen; [email protected]
ABSTRACT Background: Several models have been proposed to refer patients with possible axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) to a rheumatologist. Our aim was to evaluate performance of these models in a single cohort. Methods: 13 referral models found in the literature were evaluated in the Leiden SPondyloArthritis Caught Early (SPACE) cohort, which includes patients with back pain (≥3 months, ≤2 years, onset
