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Minimal clinically important improvement/difference (MCII/MCID) and patient acceptable symptom state (PASS): what do these concepts mean?

National Resource Centre for Rehabilitation in Rheumatology, Departmentt of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway Tore K Kvien, Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Box 23 ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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Short- and long-term efficacy of intra-articular injections with betamethasone as part of a treat-to-target strategy in early rheumatoid arthritis: impact of joint area ...

3 Department of Rheumatology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark 4 Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark 5 Department of Rheumatology ...
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Inhibition of H3K27 histone trimethylation activates fibroblasts and induces fibrosis

1 Department of Internal Medicine III and Institute for Clinical Immunology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany 2 Department of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery, University of ...
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OP0142 EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF TELITACICEPT, A NOVEL BLYS/APRIL DUAL INHIBITOR, IN PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY SJÖGREN’S SYNDROME: A PHASE 2, RANDOMIZED, PLACEBO ...

6 The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, Rheumatology, Xiamen, China 7 The First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Rheumatology, Shanxi, China 8 West China Hospital of Sichuan ...
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Short-term progression of interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis predicts long-term survival in two independent clinical trial cohorts

Correspondence to Dr Elizabeth R Volkmann, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; evolkmann{at}mednet.ucla.edu ...
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A disease activity score for polymyalgia rheumatica

Objective: To develop a composite score for measurement of disease activity in polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and assess its internal and external validity. Methods: A PMR activity score (AS) was ...
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Development of the CT Syndesmophyte Score (CTSS) in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: data from the SIAS cohort

Objectives To develop the CT Syndesmophyte Score (CTSS) for low-dose CT (ldCT) to assess structural damage in the spine of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and test its reliability. Methods ...