Instrument Selection Using the OMERACT Filter 2.1: The OMERACT Methodology.

Dorcas E Beaton^1,2, Lara J Maxwell^3,4, Beverley J Shea^3,4+13

• ¹From the Institute for Work & Health and Institute for Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto; Clinical Epidemiology Program, and Centre for Practice-Changing Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute; Cardiovascular Research Methods Centre, University of Ottawa Heart Institute; Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, and School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Department of Medical Humanities, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Medicine Service, VA Medical Center; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama; Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama; SDG LLC, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds; UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, 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; Sorbonne Université; Pitié Salpêtrière hospital, AP-HP, Rheumatology Department, Paris, France; Sydney Medical School, Institute of Bone and Joint Research and Department of Rheumatology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, Australia. dbeaton@iwh.on.ca.+3