title: Toronto Psoriatic Arthritis Screening (ToPAS) questionnaire: a report from the GRAPPA 2009 annual meeting.
abstract: The Toronto Psoriatic Arthritis Screening questionnaire (ToPAS) was developed as a tool to screen for psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in patients with psoriasis as well as in the general population. Thus, it differs from PsA-specific screening tools and may be used to screen for PsA in epidemiologic and family investigations. In a presentation at the 2009 annual meeting of GRAPPA (Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis) in Stockholm, Sweden, the authors described the development, testing, and validation of the ToPAS tool. Results of a comparison of the ToPAS questionnaire with the Psoriatic Arthritis Screening and Evaluation (PASE) questionnaire were also presented. Modification and further validation of the ToPAS are under way.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Prognosis Studies in the Rheumatic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Vinod
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Chandran
authors.forename: Dafna D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Gladman
mesh_terms: D015535:Arthritis, Psoriatic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D002170:Canada; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden