Totić, Lucija https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2070-4558
Bakula, Marija https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0176-362X
Vukičević, Ivana Ježić https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0075-9001
Biloglav, Zrinka https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3245-001X
Mayer, Miroslav https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9951-6610
Anić, Branimir https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4940-0577
Padjen, Ivan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9249-9325
Article History
Received: 19 March 2026
Accepted: 13 May 2026
First Online: 25 May 2026
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no financial and non-financial conflicts of interest related to the manuscript.
: The study was conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Ethics Committee of University Hospital Centre Zagreb (November 4, 2024; classification number: 8.1–24/231-3; reference number: 02/013 AG). Informed consent was waived by the Ethics Committee, given that the study was based on medical records.
: The authors have used Grammarly (free version 14.1137.0, ) for the purpose of improving grammar, spelling and readability, only in the period of revising the manuscript (April 22 to May 7, 2026). The authors have critically revised and checked the changes made by Grammarly, the authors take full responsibility for the final content. No part of this report is copied of generated by AI.
: The material was presented as a poster at the SLEuro meeting (March 2026) in Lisbon (Totic et al. (2026) Application of the SLERPI scoring system as a classification tool for systemic lupus erythematosus and its value for early disease recognition. Lupus Sci Med 13(Suppl 1):A187–A188. ) and has been accepted as an abstract for the 2026 EULAR congress (June 2026, London) (Padjen et al. (2026) Application and scoring system as a classification tool for systemic lupus erythematosus and its predictive role in early disease recognition. Final abstract number AB1216–publication only). No part of this report is copied or published elsewhere in whole or in part.