Tran, Gui http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3465-0242
Dube, Bright http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3277-3414
Kingsbury, Sarah R. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9917-1269
Tennant, Alan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0728-2130
Conaghan, Philip G. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3478-5665
Hensor, Elizabeth M. A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5245-4755
Funding for this research was provided by:
NIHR (DRF-2016-09-159)
Arthritis Research UK (20083)
Article History
Received: 27 September 2019
Accepted: 25 November 2019
First Online: 3 December 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare they have no conflicts of interest.
: Ethics approval was obtained from North East-Newcastle and North Tyneside 2 Research Ethics Committee (ethics approval protocol number: 16/NE/0108) and informed consent was obtained from all participants for publication.
: All human studies have been approved by the appropriate ethics committee and have therefore been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments.