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2017 European League Against Rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology classification criteria for adult and juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies and their major subgroups

13 National Institute of Health Research Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK 14 ...
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Preliminary criteria for the very early diagnosis of systemic sclerosis: results of a Delphi Consensus Study from EULAR Scleroderma Trials and Research Group

7 Department of Medicine, Section of Rheumatology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy 8 Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Kerckhoff-Klinik, ...
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Global, regional and national burden of osteoarthritis 1990-2017: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Objectives To report the level and trends of prevalence, incidence and years lived with disability (YLDs) for osteoarthritis (OA) in 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2017 by age, sex and ...
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Gout: why is this curable disease so seldom cured?

3 Department of Rheumatology, University of Edinburgh, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 4 Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Section, Alicante ...
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Not only synovitis but also tenosynovitis needs to be considered: why it is time to update textbook images of rheumatoid arthritis

Correspondence to Professor Annette van der Helm-van Mil, Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; A.H.M.van_der_Helm{at}lumc.nl Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is ...
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Defining conditions where long-term glucocorticoid treatment has an acceptably low level of harm to facilitate implementation of existing recommendations: viewpoints from an ...

3 Amsterdam Rheumatology& Immunology Center, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 4 Medical Humanities, VU Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands ...
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Efficacy of oral prednisolone in active ankylosing spondylitis: results of a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled short-term trial

Background The efficacy of oral prednisolone in patients with active ankylosing spondylitis (AS) has not been studied to date. Methods In this double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial, ...
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Short course prednisolone for adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder or stiff painful shoulder): a randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial

Objective: To determine whether a short course of prednisolone is superior to placebo for improving pain, function, and range of motion in adhesive capsulitis. Design: Double blind, randomised, ...
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Economic burden of rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review of literature in biologic era

Correspondence to Ping-Hsuan Hsieh, Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, University of Glasgow Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK; p.hsieh.1{at}research.gla.ac.uk ...
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The diagnostic accuracy of the squeeze test to identify arthritis: a cross-sectional cohort study

Correspondence to W B van den Bosch, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; W.B.van_den_Bosch{at}lumc.nl Objectives In daily ...
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Does hydrotherapy improve strength and physical function in patients with osteoarthritis—a randomised controlled trial comparing a gym based and a hydrotherapy based ...

1 Flinders University Department of Rehabilitation and Aged Care, Repatriation General Hospital, South Australia 2 Physiotherapy Department, Repatriation General Hospital, South Australia ...
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Measurement properties of the ASAS Health Index: results of a global study in patients with axial and peripheral spondyloarthritis

Objectives To evaluate construct validity, interpretability, reliability and responsiveness as well as determination of cut-off points for good and poor health within the original English version and ...