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Physician Global Assessment of Lupus Activity

The Physician Global Assessment (PGA) is a clinician-rated, single-item measure of overall systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) disease activity on a visual analogue scale (0–10). Used alongside structured indices like SLEDAI, PGA captures the clinician's integrated judgment of SLE severity, synthesising clinical examination, serology, imaging, and organ-specific findings into a holistic activity score. PGA is simple, practical, and widely used in SLE research and clinical practice as a complementary measure that reflects experienced clinician assessment of disease state.

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Physician Global Assessment of Lupus Activity
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / rheumatology
  • Petri M. Thermodynamic instability in the pathogenesis of lupus nephritis. Nat Rev Rheum. 2016;12(11):635-642. · URL
  • Bombardier C, Gladman DD, Urowitz MB, Caron D, Chang CH. Derivation of the SLEDAI: a disease activity index for lupus patients. Arthritis & Rheumatism. 1992;35(6):630-640. · DOI 10.1002/art.1780350606
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