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Feasibility and Face Validity of Outcome Measures for Use in Future Studies of Polymyalgia Rheumatica: An OMERACT Study

Max Yates, Claire E. Owen, Sara Muller, Karly Graham, Lorna Neill, Helen Twohig, Maarten Boers, Mar Pujades Rodriguez, Susan M. Goodman, Jonathan Cheah, Christian Dejaco, Chetan Mukhtyar, Berit Dalsgaard Nielsen, Joanna Robson, Lee S. Simon, Beverley Shea, Sarah L. Mackie and Catherine L. Hill for the OMERACT PMR Working Group
The Journal of Rheumatology September 2020, 47 (9) 1379-1384; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.190575
Max Yates
From the Epidemiology Centre Versus Arthritis, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK; Department of Rheumatology, East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust, Ipswich, UK; Department of Rheumatology, Austin Health; Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; Primary Care Centre Versus Arthritis, Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele; PMRGCA Scotland, Scotland, UK; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Amsterdam Rheumatology and Immunology Center, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK; Department of Rheumatology, and Department of Medicine, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA; Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria; Department of Rheumatology, Hospital of Bruneck, Bruneck, Italy; Department of Rheumatology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK; Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; Department of Rheumatology, Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK; SDG LLC, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals National Health Service (NHS) Trust, Leeds, UK; Discipline of Medicine, The University of Adelaide; the Rheumatology Unit, The Queen Elizabeth and Royal Adelaide Hospitals, Adelaide, Australia.
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