a review on disease activity scores in beh？ets disease (bd)评估疾病活动成绩在本·等病(bd).pdfVIP

Available online /supplements/5/S2 Arthritis Research Therapy Volume 5 Supplement 2, 2003 Meeting abstracts 1st Workshop of the International Society for Behçet’s Disease (ISBD) on Pathophysiology and Treatment of Behçet’s Disease Kühtai, Austria, 2–5 April, 2003 Editors: S Assaad-Khalil, H Direskeneli, M Schirmer This workshop was supported in part by Merck Austria and the Scientific Society of Hematology, Oncology and Immunology, Innsbruck Austria Received: 7 July 2003 Published: 9 September 2003 © 2003 BioMed Central Ltd (Print ISSN 1478-6354; Online ISSN 1478-6362) 1 of studies – single centre, multicentre in a single country, or multi- Introduction centre on a multinational basis. The Working Groups for Clinical Trials and Treatment and for Basic Research should work towards CG Barnes the coordination of clinical studies and trials with agreed entry cri- President of the International Society for Behçet’s Disease (ISBD), teria – diagnostic classification and disease manifestations and formerly Department of Rheumatology, The Royal London Hospital, UK activity; outcome measures; and protocols, including statistical Arthritis Res Ther 2003 5(Suppl 2):1 (DOI 10.1186/ar976) methodology. Multinational coordination through the ISBD may lead to the necessary availability of appropriate funding and secre- For this meeting of two Working