de Wit, Maarten http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8428-6354
Kirwan, John R.
Tugwell, Peter
Beaton, Dorcas
Boers, Maarten
Brooks, Peter
Collins, Sarah
Conaghan, Philip G.
D’Agostino, Maria-Antonietta
Hofstetter, Cathie
Hughes, Rod
Leong, Amye
Lyddiatt, Ann
March, Lyn
May, James
Montie, Pamela
Richards, Pamela
Simon, Lee S.
Singh, Jasvinder A.
Strand, Vibeke
Voshaar, Marieke
Bingham, Clifton O. III
Gossec, Laure
Funding for this research was provided by:
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (1IP2-PI000737-01, SC14-1402-10818)
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First Online: 5 October 2016
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: All authors declare no conflict of interest relevant to the content of this paper. PGC is supported in part by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health.
: The authors received no specific funding for this paper and have no financial disclosures directly linked with the contents of this paper. OMERACT (Outcome Measures in Rheumatology) is an international research group that is supported by registration fees and has received unrestricted hands-off funding from more than 23 pharmaceutical and clinical research companies over the past 2 years. MdeW, JRK, PT, DB, MB, PB, PGC, MADA, LM, LSS, JAS, VS, COB, and LG are, or were previously, members of the OMERACT Executive Committee; they received no financial remuneration for their participation in this role. COB was supported, in part, through a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Pilot Project Program Award (1IP2-PI000737-01) and a PCORI Methods Award (SC14-1402-10818). All statements in this report, including its findings and conclusions, are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of PCORI, its Board of Governors, or Methodology Committee.