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Research ArticleOMERACT 11

Including Health Equity Considerations in Development of Instruments for Rheumatology Research: An Introduction to a Novel OMERACT Paradigm

Jennifer O’Neill, Tamara Rader, Francis Guillemin, Annelies Boonen, Robin Christensen, Anne Lyddiatt, Jordi Pardo Pardo, Vivian Welch, Jasvinder A. Singh and Peter Tugwell
The Journal of Rheumatology January 2014, 41 (1) 150-152; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.130812
Jennifer O’Neill
From the Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France; Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands; The Parker Institute, Department of Rheumatology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; Birmingham VA Medical Center and University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA; University of Ottawa, Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine Faculty of Medicine, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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