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Available online /content/9/4/R72 Vol 9 No 4 Open Access Research article Remission by composite scores in rheumatoid arthritis: are ankles and feet important? 1 1 1 1 2 Theresa Kapral , Florian Dernoschnig , Klaus P Machold , Tanja Stamm , Monika Schoels , Josef S Smolen1,2 and Daniel Aletaha1 1Department of Rheumatology, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria 22nd Department of Medicine, Hietzing Hospital, Wolkersbergengasse 1, 1130 Vienna, Austria Corresponding author: Daniel Aletaha, daniel.aletaha@meduniwien.ac.at Received: 5 Mar 2007 Revisions requested: 24 Apr 2007 Revisions received: 30 May 2007 Accepted: 27 Jul 2007 Published: 27 Jul 2007 Arthritis Research Therapy 2007, 9:R72 (doi:10.1186/ar2270) This article is online at: /content/9/4/R72 © 2007 Kapral et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Current treatment strategies aim to achieve clinical remission in 94.1% for the absence of swelling also on the 32-joint scale. For order to prevent the long-term consequences of rheumatoid absence of tender joints, the specificity and PPV were 96.1% arthritis (RA). Several composite indices are available to assess and 91.7%, respectively. (b) Patients with swollen or tender remission. All of them include joint counts as the assessment of joints in the 32-JC, despite no jo int activity in the 28-JC, were