The Clinical Arthritis RulE (CARE)

Welcome to the Clinical Arthritis RulE (CARE) calculator!

This calculator estimates the risks of inflammatory arthritis based on the research of Ten Brinck et al. For the development of this tool, a collaboration was started between the Leiden University Medical Centre in Leiden, the Netherlands, and Keele University in Newcastle, United Kingdom. We aimed to develop and validate a clinical rule composed of a combination of clinical symptoms and signs to help GPs (or other physicians or health care professionals) to discriminate between patients with and without suspected inflammatory arthritis.

The research collaboration was facilitated through coorperation of different departments of the Leiden University Medical Centre: Rheumatology, Epidemiology and Statistics, and the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, as well as researchers from the Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences at Keele University.

The following collaborators were involved in this research:

Name	Department	Institution
Robin M. ten Brinck Bastiaan T. van Dijk Hanna W. van Steenbergen Saskia le Cessie Mattijs E. Numans Samantha L. Hider Christian D. Mallen Annette H.M. van der Helm – van Mil	Rheumatology Rheumatology Rheumatology Epidemiology and Statistics Public Health and Primary Care Primary Care and Health Sciences Primary Care and Health Sciences Rheumatology	Leiden University Medical Centre Leiden University Medical Centre Leiden University Medical Centre Leiden University Medical Centre Leiden University Medical Centre Keele University Keele University Leiden University Medical Centre