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Article History
Received: 8 April 2022
Accepted: 30 May 2022
First Online: 13 June 2022
Declarations
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: This study was performed in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration. This was a multistep process which followed the “Clinical, Evidence-based, Guidelines” (CEG) initiative protocol (ethical approval code: 34842/8/21, ethical board Tanta University) aiming at setting up an actionable clinical gold standard for treat-to-target management of rheumatic and bone diseases. As per the Egyptian national Ethical Committee regulations, verbal informed consent was required from all the participants included in the study. All the participants included in the study gave their verbal informed consent. All the participants were kept anonymous, in compliance with data protection regulations.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that the corresponding author is an associate editor in the Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Salwa Galal is also an associate editor in the journal, and Mohammed Mortada and Yasser El Miedany are among the editorial board of the journal.