Table 1 Characteristics of the commonly used SLE disease activity indices.

	BILAG	SLEDAI	SLAM‐R	ECLAM	LAI
Score	A–E	0–105	0–81	0–10 (max 17.5)	0–3
Fatigue items	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Weighted	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Laboratory variables	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Complement levels	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Anti‐dsDNA	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
VAS	No	No	No	No	Yes (scored)
Time frame considered	1 month	Last 10 days	1 month	Last 1–3 months	2 weeks

Adapted from Strand et al.²