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Epidemiology of whiplash: an international dilemma

562 Heritage Medical Research Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada TG6 2S2 Whiplash associated disorders have become an international medicolegal and social dilemma. Physicians are ...
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2013 classification criteria for systemic sclerosis: an American college of rheumatology/European league against rheumatism collaborative initiative

41 St. Joseph's Health Care London and University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada Objective The 1980 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification criteria for systemic sclerosis ...
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Power Doppler ultrasonography and synovitis: correlating ultrasound imaging with histopathological findings and evaluating the performance of ultrasound equipments

1 Department of Internal Medicine, Mikkeli Central Hospital, Mikkeli, Finland 2 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Mikkeli Central Hospital, Mikkeli, Finland 3 Department of Pathology, Mikkeli Central ...
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The development of Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society classification criteria for axial spondyloarthritis (part II): validation and final selection

Objective: To validate and refine two sets of candidate criteria for the classification/diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis (SpA). Methods: All Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society ...
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ASDAS, a highly discriminatory ASAS-endorsed disease activity score in patients with ankylosing spondylitis

7 Maastricht University Medical Center and CAPHRI Research Institute, Maastricht, The Netherlands Correspondence to Professor D van der Heijde, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical ...
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Clinically important changes in individual and composite measures of rheumatoid arthritis activity: thresholds applicable in clinical trials

Correspondence to Dr Michael M Ward, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, NIAMS/NIH, Building 10 CRC, Room ...
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Gout is associated with more comorbidities, poorer health-related quality of life and higher healthcare utilisation in US veterans

Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research at the VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Objective: To better understand the impact of gout on functional status, health-related quality of ...
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Steroid injection for inferior heel pain: a randomised controlled trial

3 Centre for Public Health, Queens’ University Belfast, Belfast, UK 4 Department of Rheumatology, Altnagelvin Area Hospital, Londonderry, UK 5 Department of Rheumatology, Chapel Allerton Hospital, ...
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OP0229 THE GROUP FOR RESEARCH AND ASSESSMENT OF PSORIASIS AND PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS (GRAPPA) TREATMENT RECOMMENDATIONS 2021

Background: Since the 2015 GRAPPA treatment recommendations were published, therapeutic options and management strategies for psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have advanced considerably. Objectives: The goal ...
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Knee pain and osteoarthritis in older adults: a review of community burden and current use of primary health care

Dr G Peat, Primary Care Sciences Research Centre, School of Postgraduate Medicine, Keele University, The Medical Institute, Hartshill Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST7 4NY, UKg.m.peat{at}hfac.keele.ac.uk ...
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‘Deep Koebner’ phenomenon of the flexor tendon-associated accessory pulleys as a novel factor in tenosynovitis and dactylitis in psoriatic arthritis

Objectives Skin and joint involvement in psoriasis (PsO) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) are thought to relate to the so-called Koebner response. Given that dactylitis is non-randomly distributed in the ...
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EULAR definition of arthralgia suspicious for progression to rheumatoid arthritis

Correspondence to Dr Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; AvdHelm{at}lumc.nl Background ...