New Provisional Criteria for Clinical Diagnosis of Fibromyalgia

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Details: Last Updated: 23 January 2016 23 January 2016

In May 2010, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) released new criteria for the clinical diagnosis of Fibromyalgia (FM). The proposed criteria are provisional and will still need to be intermittently updated. Read a summary.