AIM To establish a definitive set of diagnostic criteria in a multicentre European study a selected number of oral and ocular tests were performed on a large number of patients with Sjögrens Syndrome (SS) and controls. The diagnostic accuracy of each test for patients with primary and secondary SS and for controls at different ages, was studied. METHODS Each centre received a clinical chart d...

Primary Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) probably has the dubious distinction of having more proposed criteria than any other rheumatic condition—certainly this was the case in the 1980s and 1990s (eg, Copenhagen, Californian, Greek and Japanese criteria). In 2002, Vitali et al published the revised American European Consensus Group (AECG) criteria, which have now served as the gold standard for over 10...