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William J Taylor1, Jaap Fransen1, Nicola Dalbeth1

  • 1From the University of Otago, Wellington; University of Auckland, Auckland; Department of Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand; Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen; Amsterdam Rheumatology Immunology Center (ARC), Department of Rheumatology, Westfries Gasthuis, Hoorn; Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem, the Netherlands; Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand; Servicio de Reumatología, Hospital General de México, México City, México; Nasonova Research Institute of Rheumatology of Russia, Moscow, Russia; School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin; Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; Rheumatology Division, Hospital Universitario Cruces and BioCruces Health Research Institute, Vizcaya; Department Reumatologia, Hospital General Universitario de Elda, Alicante, Spain; Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, UFR de Médecine; Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM), UMR 1132, Hôpital Lariboisière; Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Lariboisière, Service de Rhumatologie, Centre Viggo Petersen, Pôle Appareil Locomoteur, Paris, France; Epidemiology Unit, Italian Society for Rheumatology (SIR), Milan; Division of Rheumatology, University and IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo Foundation, Pavia; Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy; Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation; Taichung Veterans' General Hospital; School of Medicine, China Medical University; Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; Division of Rheumatology, Department of In

The Journal of Rheumatology
|December 3, 2015
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