What do you consider to be the current standard method used as a determinant of joint stiffness pain in RA sufferers excluding disease activity scale?

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Safaa A. Mahran

for the stifness, patients assessment of the duration is used. For pain the visual analogue scale VAS is used .

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Adam Slater

Other than the standard DAS 28 OR 66/68 joint counts, the only other assessment types I have come across are ultrasound imaging based. This is currently in development as it takes out the objective nature of the joint assessment and assessors.