Improving Benefit-harm Assessment of Therapies from the Patient Perspective: OMERACT Premeeting Toward Consensus on...

Kathleen M Andersen^1,2, Jonathan T L Cheah^3,4, Lyn March^3,4+21

• ¹From the Department of Family Medicine, and Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec; Institute for Work & Health, Toronto; OMERACT; Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa Hospital; Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, and School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa; Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa Cardiovascular Research Methods Centre, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Musculoskeletal Statistics Unit, The Parker Institute, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen; Department of Rheumatology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark; Division of Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery; Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical School, New York, New York; Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Division of Biostatistics, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona; Medicine Service, VA Medical Center; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; Division of Immunology/Rheumatology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; SDG LLC, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Sydney Medical School, and Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney; Centre for Kidney Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney; Institute of Bone and Joint Research, Kolling Institute, Northern Sydney Local Health District; Department of Rheumatology, Royal North Shore Hospital, Reserve Road, St Leonards; Centre for Health Policy, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide; Rheumatology Unit, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville; Department of Rheumatology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Australia; Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds; UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals National Health Service (NHS) Trust; NIHR-Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK; Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Rheumatology Department, Boulogne-Billancourt; INSERM U1173, Laboratoire d'Excellence INFLAMEX, UFR Simone Veil, Versailles-Saint-Quentin University, Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, France; Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Department of Medical Humanities, Amsterdam Public Health, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. kathleen.andersen@mail.mcgill.ca.+3