Background: Current response criteria in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) usually assess only three
patient-reported outcomes (PROs): pain, functional disability and patient global assessment. …

OBJECTIVES: The French Society of Rheumatology initiated a large national multicenter,
longitudinal and prospective cohort, the so-called “ESPOIR cohort study” in order to set up …

Objective: To assess the radiological damage progression in patients with recent rheumatoid
arthritis in sustained remission. Methods: A cohort of 191 patients with active early (<1 year…

ESPOIR is a French multicenter cohort of patients with undifferentiated arthritis enrolled
within six months of symptom onset, naive to disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and …

Objective To explore the 7-year tolerability profile of glucocorticoids (GC) for early rheumatoid
arthritis (RA). Methods We examined data for 602 patients with RA from the early arthritis …

Objective To describe the disease course of patients with early arthritis without rheumatoid
factor (RF) and anti-citrullinated protein auto-antibodies (ACPA) in an inception cohort. To …

Background In 2010, new classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were developed.
Objective To assess agreement between 1987 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) …

Objectives To explore the 10-year tolerability profile of glucocorticoids (GC) use in patients
with early RA. Methods Analysis of 10-year outcome from the early arthritis ESPOIR cohort. …

Objective. RA is a chronic disease with frequent psychological co-morbidities, of which
depression and anxiety are two common manifestations. We aimed to identify predictive factors of …

Objective. To report the 5-year outcome of a large prospective cohort of patients with very
early rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and to identify factors predictive of outcome. Methods. Patients …