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Report of the Skin Research Working Groups From the GRAPPA 2020 Annual Meeting
Lourdes M Perez-Chada1, Alison Kohn1, Alice B Gottlieb1
1As part of the supplement series GRAPPA 2020, this report was reviewed internally and approved by the Guest Editors for integrity, accuracy, and consistency with scientific and ethical standards. L.M. Perez-Chada, MD, MMSc, Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; A. Kohn, BS, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA; A.B. Gottlieb, MD, PhD, Department of Dermatology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai, New York, New York, USA; A.W. Armstrong, MD, MPH, Department of Dermatology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA; L. Eder, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto and Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; P.J. Mease, MD, Swedish Medical Center/Providence St Joseph Health and University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA; A. Ogdie, MD, MSCE, Department of Medicine/Division of Rheumatology, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; V. Strand, MD, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA; J.F. Merola, MD, MMSc, Derpartment of Dermatology, and Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. This paper does not require institutional review board approval. Address correspondence to Dr. J.F. Merola, Department of Dermatology and Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 221 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Abstract:
At the 2020 annual meeting of the Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA), the International Dermatology Outcome Measures (IDEOM) Initiative Psoriasis (PsO) Working Group presented an update on its work to agree on meaningful, valid, and feasible outcome measures for PsO randomized controlled trials and longitudinal observational studies. The Treatment Satisfaction Working Group presented the development of a treatment satisfaction instrument to be utilized in PsO clinical trials. The Musculoskeletal Symptoms Working Group presented an overview of their work conducted to date to define how to best measure musculoskeletal symptoms in PsO clinical studies, and discussed next steps during an open-panel discussion, which included PsO and psoriatic arthritis experts.
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