PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kloppenburg, Margreet
AU  - Bøyesen, Pernille
AU  - Smeets, Wilma
AU  - Haugen, Ida
AU  - Liu, Rani
AU  - Visser, Willemien
AU  - van der Heijde, Désirée M.
TI  - Report from the OMERACT Hand Osteoarthritis Special Interest Group: Advances and Future Research Priorities
AID  - 10.3899/jrheum.131253
DP  - 2014 Apr 01
TA  - The Journal of Rheumatology
PG  - 810--818
VI  - 41
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.jrheum.org/content/41/4/810.short
4100  - http://www.jrheum.org/content/41/4/810.full
SO  - J Rheumatol2014 Apr 01; 41
AB  - Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders, frequently affecting the hands. In the last decade there has been increased awareness concerning this disorder because of its clinical burden. Unfortunately, only limited treatments for symptom alleviation are available, and no effective treatment for disease modification exists. The lack of treatment is due not only to a lack of understanding of the disease process, but also to poor outcome measures to assess the condition. The OMERACT Hand OA Special Interest Group (SIG) has started to develop a core set of outcome measures for hand OA clinical trials, observational studies, and clinical record keeping. At OMERACT 11, results from a Delphi exercise were presented, and a preliminary set of core domains was discussed. The group attempted to adopt the new OMERACT Filter 2.0 in the process, and literature overviews of conventional radiographs, ultrasonography, and magnetic resonance imaging as outcome measures in hand OA were presented. Discussions that followed highlighted further suggestions for core domains, the heterogeneity of hand OA, and future research priorities.