Evaluation of the Patient Acceptable Symptom State (PASS) in Italian Patients Affected by Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Association with Disease Activity Indices

Abstract

In the clinical practice, SLE patients assessment performed by using complex disease activity indices such as SLEDAI-2K and ECLAM, could be time consuming. In our study, for the first time, we used PASS, a quick and easily comprehensible tool, to evaluate the patients' status, this single question seems to be able to discriminate patients with different disease activity, especially when this is determined by musculoskeletal involvement.