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Received: 23 November 2017

Accepted: 9 April 2019

First Online: 4 May 2019

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: VS is a research fellow at the University of Exeter College of Medicine and Health and a member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.FC is Professor in Musculoskeletal Health at the University of the West of England, Bristol and Fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.SH is Arthritis Research UK Professor of Rheumatology Nursing at the University of the West of England and an honorary consultant nurse at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust.NW is Professor of Knowledge Mobilisation and Musculoskeletal Health at the University of the West of England, Bristol and Avon Primary Care Research Collaborative.JK is Emeritus Professor of Rheumatic Diseases at the University of Bristol, Visiting Professor at the University of the West of England, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.MM and MU are patient research partners at the Academic Rheumatology Unit, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, and have lived experience of rheumatoid arthritis.

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