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Do you routinely apply the 2010/2011 ACR symptom-based diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia in your practice, or do you continue to use the 1990 tender point examination to make the diagnosis?

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Rheumatology · Tufts University School of Medicine

Fibromyalgia diagnostic criteria have been a source of controversy and multiple revisions. Much of this confusion relates to failing to distinguish classification criteria, established to provide uniform criteria for clinical studies, from diagnostic criteria, which rely on expert opinion. Rheumatol...

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