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1. Pincus T, Swearingen C, Wolfe F. Toward a multidimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire (MDHAQ): assessment of advanced activities of daily living and psychological status in the patient-friendly health assessment questionnaire format. Arthritis and rheumatism. 1999;42(10):2220-30.

2. Pincus T, Sokka T, Kautiainen H. Further development of a physical function scale on a MDHAQ for standard care of patients with rheumatic diseases. J Rheumatol. 2005;32(8):1432-9.

3. Pincus T, Swearingen CJ, Bergman MJ, Colglazier CL, Kaell AT, Kunath AM, et al. RAPID3 (Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data) on an MDHAQ (Multidimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire): agreement with DAS28 (Disease Activity Score) and CDAI (Clinical Disease Activity Index) activity categories, scored in five versus more than ninety seconds. Arthritis care & research. 2010;62(2):181-9.

4. Pincus T. Pain, function, and RAPID scores: vital signs in chronic diseases, analogous to pulse and temperature in acute diseases and blood pressure and cholesterol in long-term health. Bulletin of the NYU hospital for joint diseases. 2008;66(2):155-65.

5. Pincus T, Swearingen CJ, Bergman M, Yazici Y. RAPID3 (Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data 3), a rheumatoid arthritis index without formal joint counts for routine care: proposed severity categories compared to disease activity score and clinical disease activity index categories. J Rheumatol. 2008;35(11):2136-47.

6. Schmukler J, Jamal S, Castrejon I, Block JA, Pincus T. Fibromyalgia Assessment Screening Tools (FAST) Based on Only Multidimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire (MDHAQ) Scores as Clues to Fibromyalgia. ACR Open Rheumatol. 2019;1(8):516-25.

7. Morla RM, Li T, Castrejon I, Luta G, Pincus T. Multidimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire as an Effective Tool to Screen for Depression in Routine Rheumatology Care. Arthritis care & research. 2021;73(1):120-9.

8. Islam ST, Descallar J, Martens D, Hassett G, Gibson KA. Screening for Anxiety in Patients With Inflammatory Arthritis Using the Multidimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire. J Rheumatol. 2023;50(10):1273-8. (1-4)

9. Castrejon I, Bergman MJ, Pincus T. MDHAQ/RAPID3 to recognize improvement over 2 months in usual care of patients with osteoarthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, spondyloarthropathy, and gout, as well as rheumatoid arthritis. Journal of clinical rheumatology : practical reports on rheumatic & musculoskeletal diseases. 2013;19(4):169-74.

10. Gibson KA, Castrejon I, Descallar J, Pincus T. Fibromyalgia Assessment Screening Tool: Clues to Fibromyalgia on a Multidimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire for Routine Care. J Rheumatol. 2020;47(5):761-9.

11. Juan Schmukler, Tengfei Li, Kathryn A. Gibson, Rosa M. Morla, George Luta, Theodore Pincus. Patient global assessment is elevated by up to 5 of 10 units in patients with inflammatory arthritis who screen positive for fibromyalgia (by FAST4) and/or depression (by MDS2) on a single MDHAQ. Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism 58 (2023) 152151