Josef S Smolen, Monika Schöls, Jürgen Braun, Maxime Dougados, Oliver FitzGerald, Dafna D Gladman, Arthur Kavanaugh, Robert Landewé, Philip Mease, Joachim Sieper, Tanja Stamm, Maarten de Wit, Daniel Aletaha, Xenofon Baraliakos, Neil Betteridge, Filip van den Bosch, Laura C Coates, Paul Emery, Lianne S Gensler, Laure Gossec, Philip Helliwell, Merryn Jongkees, Tore K Kvien, Robert D Inman, Iain B McInnes, Mara Maccarone, Pedro M Machado, Anna Molto, Alexis Ogdie, Denis Poddubnyy, Christopher Ritchlin, Martin Rudwaleit, Adrian Tanew, Bing Thio, Douglas Veale, Kurt de Vlam, Désirée van der Heijde
Therapeutic targets have been defined for axial and peripheral spondyloarthritis (SpA) in 2012, but the evidence for these recommendations was only of indirect nature. These recommendations were re-evaluated in light of new insights. Based on the results of a systematic literature review and expert opinion, a task force of rheumatologists, dermatologists, patients and a health professional developed an update of the 2012 recommendations. These underwent intensive discussions, on site voting and subsequent anonymous electronic voting on levels of agreement with each item...
January 2018: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases