Canadian Rheumatology Association Living Guidelines for Rheumatoid Arthritis: Update #1

Glen S. Hazlewood, MD, PhD, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Arthritis Research Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Pooneh Akhavan, MD, MSc, Division of Rheumatology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Jordi Pardo Pardo, LDO, Cochrane Musculoskeletal, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Arnav Agarwal, MD, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; MAGIC Evidence Ecosystem Foundation, Oslo, Norway.

Orit Schieir, PhD, Canadian Early Arthritis Cohort Study, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Claire E.H. Barber, MD, PhD, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Arthritis Research Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Laurie Proulx, B.Com, Canadian Arthritis Patient Alliance, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Dawn P. Richards, PhD, Canadian Arthritis Patient Alliance, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Claire Bombardier, MD, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Janet E. Pope, MD, MPH, Department of Medicine, Western University, Schulich School of Medicine &Dentistry, London, Ontario, Canada.

Cheryl Barnabe, MD, MSc, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Arthritis Research Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Peter Tugwell, MD, Department of Medicine and School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Shahin Jamal, MD, MSc, Division of Rheumatology, University of British Columbia,Arthritis Research Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

J. Carter Thorne, MD, The Arthritis Program Research Group, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada.

Roko P.A. Nikolic, MD, Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Majed Khraish, MD, Department of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Nick Bansback, PhD, Arthritis Research Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada;School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Alexandra Legge, MD, MSc, Arthritis Research Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada;Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Vivian Bykerk, MD, Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine (Cornell University), New York, New York, USA.

Regina Taylor-Gjevre, MD, MSc, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Canada.