Discordance between Patient and Physician Assessments of Disease Severity in Systemic Sclerosis

OBJECTIVE: To describe the magnitude and correlates of discordance between patient and physician assessments of disease severity in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). METHODS: Subjects were patients enrolled in the Canadian Scleroderma Research Group Registry. The outcomes of interest were patient and physician global assessments of disease severity (scales ranging from 0-10). Predictors of disease severity represented the spectrum of …