El Miedany, Yasser http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4543-692X
Kamel, Nadia Salah http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4637-2219
Abu-Zaid, Mohammed Hassan http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8436-8598
El Hadidi, Khaled
Mahmoud, Geilan Abdelmoneim http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5858-9645
Sarhan, Eman
El Gaafary, Maha http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3948-3826
Abdel-Nasser, Ahmed http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2614-4868
Abualfadl, Esam M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2319-4122
Azim, Atef Abdel
Fathi, Nihal Ahmed
Mokbel, Abir
Hassan, Waleed http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3238-6804
Tabra, Samar Abd Alhamed http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6414-5602
Eissa, Mervat http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7999-3401
Mortada, Mohamed http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7198-9878
Fouad, Nermeen Ahmed http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6461-4939
Elnemr, Rehab http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9604-4937
Mansour, Ahmed Ezzat http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7052-7850
Elaraby, Ismail
Medhat, Basma M. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6944-6367
Mohamed, Sally S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4537-6373
Abdelradi, Eman Ragab http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8656-096X
Ibrahim, Rehab Ali
Saber, Sally http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8162-4699
Article History
Received: 5 May 2022
Accepted: 1 August 2022
First Online: 13 September 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 and Rehab Ali are associate editors in the Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, and Mohammed Mortada and Yasser El Miedany are from the editorial board of the journal.