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Table 4 Summary of medical records of incident patients in the strict definition of register-based incident RA in the Swedish National Patient Register

From: Validation of the rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis in the Swedish National patient register: a cohort study from Stockholm County

Total number of subjects

82

Verified RA

75(91%)

Thereof incident

69(92%)

1987 ACR criteria and 2010 ACR/EULAR criteria

60/69(87%)

1987 criteria only

6/69(87%)

2010 ACR/EULAR criteria only

1/69(1.4%)

RA diagnosis not substained

7(8.5%)

Psoriatic arthritis

3

Unspecified polyarthritis

4

  1. n, values given as number of patients and (%) given as the equivalent percentage.