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CLINICAL experience and the lack of some accepted system in the literature impressed us with the need for a standardized scheme of appraising therapeutic results in chronic rheumatoid arthritis. We therefore devised the method now used in the Arthritis Clinic of Bellevue Hospital, the so-called "Therapeutic Score Card," which offers an objective and comparatively accurate method of measuring the response to therapy.One purpose of such a scheme is, so far as possible, to divest therapeutic study of the subjective influence of the patient and of the prejudicial enthusiasm of the physician. Another is to provide a uniform method that . . .
Steinbrocker et al. (Thu,) studied this question.