Validity of clinical disease activity index (CDAI) to evaluate the disease activity of rheumatoid arthritis patients in Sri Lanka: A prospective follow up study based on newly diagnosed patients

• Keerthie Dissanayake,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

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• Chandrika Jayasinghe,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Teaching Hospital, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

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• Priyani Wanigasekara,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rehabilitation Hospital, Digana, Sri Lanka

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• Jayampathy Dissanayake,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

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• Ajith Sominanda

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ajithsomi@qu.edu.qa

  Affiliation Department of Basic Medical Science, College of Medicine, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9047-4522

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