Society guideline links: Systemic lupus erythematosus

Introduction — 

This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Cutaneous lupus erythematosus".)

International

●Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO): Clinical practice guideline for the management of lupus nephritis (2024)

•KDIGO: Clinical practice guideline for the management of glomerular diseases (2021)

●International consensus for the dosing of corticosteroids in childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus with proliferative lupus nephritis (2021)

●Treat-to-target in systemic lupus erythematosus – Recommendations from an international task force (2014)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't order ANA as a screening test in patients without specific signs or symptoms of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or another connective tissue disease (CTD) (2024)

●Canadian Rheumatology Association (CRA): Recommendations for the assessment and monitoring of systemic lupus erythematosus (2018)

United States

●American College of Rheumatology (ACR): Guideline for the management of reproductive health in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (2020)

●European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR)/ACR: Classification criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus (2019)

●Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA): Consensus treatment plans for induction therapy of newly diagnosed proliferative lupus nephritis in juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus (2012)

Latin America

●Latin American Group for the Study of Lupus (GLADEL)-Pan-American League of Associations of Rheumatology (PANLAR): First Latin American clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (2018)

Europe

●European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR): Recommendations for the non-pharmacological management of systemic lupus erythematosus and systemic sclerosis (2023)

●EULAR/Pediatric Rheumatology European Society (PReS): Recommendations for vaccination of paediatric patients with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases, 2021 update (published 2023)

●EULAR: Recommendations for cardiovascular risk management in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus and antiphospholipid syndrome (2022)

●EULAR and European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA): Joint recommendations for the management of lupus nephritis, 2019 update (published 2020)

●EULAR: Recommendations for the management of systemic lupus erythematosus, update (2019)

●EULAR: Recommendations for vaccination in adult patients with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases, update (2019)

●EULAR/American College of Rheumatology (ACR): Classification criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus (2019)

●EULAR: Recommendations for women's health and the management of family planning, assisted reproduction, pregnancy and menopause in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and/or antiphospholipid syndrome (2017)

●Single Hub and Access point for paediatric Rheumatology in Europe (SHARE): European evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of childhood-onset lupus nephritis (2017)

●SHARE: European evidence-based recommendations for diagnosis and treatment of childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (2017)

●EULAR: Recommendations for monitoring patients with systemic lupus erythematosus in clinical practice and in observational studies (2010)

United Kingdom

●British Society for Rheumatology (BSR): Guideline scope for management and treatment of children, young people, and adults with systemic lupus erythematosus (2023)

•BSR: Guideline for the management of systemic lupus erythematosus in adults (2018)

Australia–New Zealand

●Choosing Wisely Australia: Do not order anti-double stranded (ds) DNA antibodies in ANA negative patients unless clinical suspicion of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) remains high (2018)