Takayuki Sumida, Naoto Azuma, Masafumi Moriyama, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Hiromitsu Asashima, Fumika Honda, Saori Abe, Yuko Ono, Tomoya Hirota, Shintaro Hirata, Yoshiya Tanaka, Toshimasa Shimizu, Hideki Nakamura, Atsushi Kawakami, Hajime Sano, Yoko Ogawa, Kazuo Tsubota, Koufuchi Ryo, Ichiro Saito, Akihiko Tanaka, Seiji Nakamura, Etsuko Takamura, Masao Tanaka, Katsuya Suzuki, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Noriyuki Yamakawa, Tsuneyo Mimori, Akiko Ohta, Susumu Nishiyama, Toshio Yoshihara, Yasunori Suzuki, Mitsuhiro Kawano, Minako Tomiita, Hiroto Tsuboi
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study is to develop clinical practice guideline (CPG) for Sjögren's syndrome (SS) based on recently available clinical and therapeutic evidences. METHODS: The CPG committee for SS was organized by the Research Team for Autoimmune Diseases, Research Program for Intractable Disease of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW), Japan. The committee completed a systematic review of evidences for several clinical questions and developed CPG for SS 2017 according to the procedure proposed by the Medical Information Network Distribution Service (Minds)...
May 2018: Modern Rheumatology