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Article History

Received: 10 June 2022

Accepted: 6 September 2023

First Online: 10 October 2023

Declarations

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: As it consists of a clinical practice guideline, the project did not require approval by an institutional review board (IRB).

: Not applicable.

: MAO: grants or contracts (Abbvie, Pfizer, New Bridge, Roche and BMS), consulting fees (Abbvie, Actelion, Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, GSK, Hekma, Hoffman- La Roche, New Bridge, Pfizer), honoraria for lectures, presentations, speakers bureaus, manuscript writing or educational events (Abbvie, Actelion, Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, GSK, Hekma, Hoffman- La Roche, New Bridge, Pfizer), support for attending meetings and/or travel (Abbvie, Actelion, Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Gsk, Hekma, Hoffman- La Roche, New Bridge, Pfizer). HAR: honoraria for lectures and speaker fees (Pfizer, AbbVie, Lilly and Janssen), consulting fees (Pfizer, Lilly, AbbVie, Amgen, and Janssen). AAK: payment or honoraria for lectures, presentations, speakers bureaus, manuscript writing or educational events (Pfizer, Abbvie, Lilly), grants or contracts (Pfizer, Lilly, Abbvie), support for attending meetings and/or travel (Pfizer, Abbvie, Lilly), participation on a Data Safety Monitoring Board or Advisory Board (Lilly, Pfizer), fellowship training program support (Pfizer). MAA: support for attending meetings and/or travel: Abbvie (Open Rheum meeting, Jeddah), Lilly (ADARCC, Dubai). JAS: consulting fees (Crealta/Horizon, Medisys, Fidia, PK Med, Two labs Inc., Adept Field Solutions, Clinical Care options, Clearview healthcare partners, Putnam associates, Focus forward, Navigant consulting, Spherix, MedIQ, Jupiter Life Science, UBM LLC, Trio Health, Medscape, WebMD, and Practice Point communications; and the National Institutes of Health and the American College of Rheumatology), payment or honoraria for lectures, presentations, speakers bureaus, manuscript writing or educational events (on the speaker’s bureau of Simply Speaking), support for attending meetings and/or travel (support from OMERACT, an international organization that develops measures for clinical trials and receives arm’s length funding from 12 pharmaceutical companies, to attend their meeting every 2 years), leadership or fiduciary role in other board, society, committee or advocacy group, paid or unpaid (steering committee member of the OMERACT, an international organization that develops measures for clinical trials and receives arm’s length funding from 12 pharmaceutical companies; chair of the Veterans Affairs Rheumatology Field Advisory Committee; editor and the Director of the UAB Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group Satellite Center on Network Meta-analysis), stock or stock options (currently owned stock in TPT Global Tech, Vaxart pharmaceuticals, Atyu biopharma, Adaptimmune Therapeutics, GeoVax Labs, Pieris Pharmaceuticals, Enzolytics Inc., Seres Therapeutics and Charlotte’s Web Holdings, Inc; previously owned stock options in Amarin, Viking and Moderna pharmaceuticals).