RT Book, Section A1 Huppert, Laura A. A1 Dyster, Timothy G. SR Print(0) ID 1189913943 T1 Diagnostics in Rheumatology T2 Huppert’s Notes: Pathophysiology and Clinical Pearls for Internal Medicine YR 2021 FD 2021 PB McGraw Hill PP New York, NY SN 9781260470079 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1189913943 RD 2024/03/29 AB Most rheumatologic diseases are diagnosed “clinically” – e.g., a rheumatologist weighs the exam findings, labs, imaging and/or tissue biopsy results and makes a (sometimes tentative) diagnosis based on the strength of concordance between these findings and a given disease entity.Classification criteria: Diagnostic criteria exist to ensure homogeneity of patients with rheumatologic diseases who enroll in clinical trials. Therefore, these criteria are biased in favor of specificity and NOT intended to diagnose rheumatic diseases.