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Article History

Received: 25 January 2021

Accepted: 28 January 2021

First Online: 11 March 2021

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB, 300002272; UAB Coordinating Center 300002554). Each study site’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) also reviewed and approved the study. All investigations were conducted in conformity with ethical principles of research.

: Not applicable.

: There are no financial conflicts related directly to this study. JAS has received consultant fees from Crealta/Horizon, Medisys, Fidia, UBM LLC, Trio Health, Medscape, WebMD, MedIQ, Two labs Inc, Adept Field Solutions, Clinical Care options, Clearview healthcare partners, Putnam associates, Spherix, Practice Point Communications, the National Institutes of Health, and the American College of Rheumatology. JAS owns stock options in TPT Global Tech, Vaxart pharmaceuticals and Charlotte’s Web Holdings, Inc. JAS previously owned stock options in Amarin and Moderna pharmaceuticals and Viking therapeutics. JAS is on the speaker’s bureau of Simply Speaking. JAS is a member of the executive of OMERACT, an organization that develops outcome measures in rheumatology, and receives arms-length funding from 12 companies. JAS serves on the FDA Arthritis Advisory Committee. JAS is a member of the Veterans Affairs Rheumatology Field Advisory Committee. JAS is the editor and the Director of the UAB Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group Satellite Center on Network Meta-analysis. JAS previously served as a member of the following committees: member, the American College of Rheumatology’s (ACR) Annual Meeting Planning Committee (AMPC) and Quality of Care Committees, the Chair of the ACR Meet-the-Professor, Workshop and Study Group Subcommittee, and the co-chair of the ACR Criteria and Response Criteria subcommittee. Drs. Hearld, Hall, and Beasley have no financial conflicts.