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List of works by Sofia Ramiro

2016 update of the ASAS-EULAR management recommendations for axial spondyloarthritis

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

2019 EULAR points to consider for the assessment of competences in rheumatology specialty training

scientific article published on 11 August 2020

A psychometric analysis of outcome measures in peripheral spondyloarthritis

scientific article published on 05 August 2015

A randomised phase II study evaluating the efficacy and safety of subcutaneously administered ustekinumab and guselkumab in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis despite treatment with methotrexate

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

Addressing health literacy needs in rheumatology - which patient health literacy profiles need the attention of health professionals?

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

Adherence to Treat-to-target Management in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Associated Factors: Data from the International RA BIODAM Cohort

scientific article published on 15 September 2019

Applying science in practice: the optimization of biological therapy in rheumatoid arthritis

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Are gender-specific approaches needed in diagnosing early axial spondyloarthritis? Data from the SPondyloArthritis Caught Early cohort

scientific article published in October 2018

Aspects of validity of the self-administered comorbidity questionnaire in patients with ankylosing spondylitis

scientific article published in June 2014

Association of the different types of radiographic damage with physical function in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: analysis of the RAPID trials

scientific article published on 11 March 2016

Back to the future: forget ultrasound and focus on clinical assessment in rheumatoid arthritis management

scientific article published on 2 August 2017

Biological DMARDs and disease modification in axial spondyloarthritis: a review through the lens of causal inference

scientific article published in 2021

Biologicals and switch in rheumatoid arthritis throughout time - are we being more aggressive?

scientific article published on 01 July 2011

Brief report: erosions and sclerosis on radiographs precede the subsequent development of syndesmophytes at the same site: a twelve-year prospective followup of patients with ankylosing spondylitis

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Characteristics associated with the presence and development of extra-articular manifestations in ankylosing spondylitis: 12-year results from OASIS.

scientific article published on 17 September 2014

CoReumaPt protocol: the Portuguese cohort of rheumatic diseases

scientific article published on January 2012

Combination Therapy for Pain Management in Inflammatory Arthritis: A Cochrane Systematic Review

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

Combination therapy for pain management in inflammatory arthritis

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Combination therapy for pain management in inflammatory arthritis (rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, other spondyloarthritis)

scientific article published on October 5, 2011

Comparing patient-perceived and physician-perceived remission and low disease activity in psoriatic arthritis: an analysis of 410 patients from 14 countries

scientific article published on 15 November 2018

Consensus-based recommendations for the use of biosimilars to treat rheumatological diseases

scientific article published on 2 September 2017

Defining remission and treatment success using the DAPSA score: response to letter by Helliwell and Coates

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Deriving common comorbidity indices from the MedDRA classification and exploring their performance on key outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on 19 December 2017

Determinants of the physician global assessment of disease activity and influence of contextual factors in early axial spondyloarthritis

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

Development of amyloidosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis under TNF-blocking agents

scholarly article by Raquel Roque et al published 12 April 2011 in Clinical Rheumatology

Development of new syndesmophytes and bridges in ankylosing spondylitis and their predictors: a longitudinal study

scientific article published on 11 October 2011

Development of the CT Syndesmophyte Score (CTSS) in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: data from the SIAS cohort

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Differences and similarities in rheumatology specialty training programmes across European countries

scientific article published on 6 March 2015

Discontinuation rates of biologics in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: are TNF inhibitors different from non-TNF inhibitors?

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Disease activity is longitudinally related to sacroiliac inflammation on MRI in male patients with axial spondyloarthritis: 2-years of the DESIR cohort

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Disease activity states of the DAPSA, a psoriatic arthritis specific instrument, are valid against functional status and structural progression.

scientific article published on 25 July 2016

Do extra-articular manifestations influence outcome in ankylosing spondylitis? 12-year results from OASIS.

scientific article published on 2 February 2016

Do patients with axial spondyloarthritis with radiographic sacroiliitis fulfil both the modified New York criteria and the ASAS axial spondyloarthritis criteria? Results from eight cohorts

scientific article published on 30 July 2019

Do smoking and socioeconomic factors influence imaging outcomes in axial spondyloarthritis? Five-year data from the DESIR cohort

scientific article published on 20 June 2020

Does gender influence outcome measures similarly in patients with spondyloarthritis? Results from the ASAS-perSpA study

scientific article published in 2022

EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis with synthetic and biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: 2013 update

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EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis with synthetic and biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: 2016 update

scientific article published on 6 March 2017

EULAR recommendations for the use of imaging in large vessel vasculitis in clinical practice

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

EULAR/eumusc.net standards of care for rheumatoid arthritis: cross-sectional analyses of importance, level of implementation and care gaps experienced by patients and rheumatologists across 35 European countries

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Economic considerations and patients' preferences affect treatment selection for patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a discrete choice experiment among European rheumatologists

scientific article published on 17 May 2016

Educational needs and preferences of young European clinicians and physician researchers working in the field of rheumatology

scientific article published on 27 July 2016

Efficacy and safety of biological and targeted-synthetic DMARDs: a systematic literature review informing the 2016 update of the ASAS/EULAR recommendations for the management of axial spondyloarthritis

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Efficacy and safety of non-pharmacological and non-biological pharmacological treatment: a systematic literature review informing the 2016 update of the ASAS/EULAR recommendations for the management of axial spondyloarthritis

scientific article published on 27 January 2017

Efficacy of biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: a systematic literature review informing the 2013 update of the EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on 07 January 2014

Efficacy of biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: a systematic literature review informing the 2016 update of the EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on 10 March 2017

Efficacy of conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, glucocorticoids and tofacitinib: a systematic literature review informing the 2013 update of the EULAR recommendations for management of rheumatoid arthritis

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Efficacy of glucocorticoids, conventional and targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: a systematic literature review informing the 2016 update of the EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on 29 March 2017

Empty Capsids and Macrophage Inhibition/Depletion Increase rAAV Transgene Expression in Joints of Both Healthy and Arthritic Mice

scientific article published on 2 November 2016

EpiReumaPt Protocol - Portuguese epidemiologic study of the rheumatic diseases

scientific article published on July 1, 2010

EpiReumaPt- the study of rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases in Portugal: a detailed view of the methodology.

scientific article published in April 2015

Equivalence in the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) across socio-demographic determinants: Analyses within QUEST-RA.

scientific article published on 9 August 2017

Erratum to: Rheumatology training experience across Europe: analysis of core competences

scientific article published on 19 December 2016

European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for the management of psoriatic arthritis with pharmacological therapies: 2015 update

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Evolution of radiographic damage in ankylosing spondylitis: a 12 year prospective follow-up of the OASIS study

scientific article published on 16 August 2013

Fish oil supplements for rheumatoid arthritis

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Fluctuations in patient reported disease activity, pain and global being in patients with ankylosing spondylitis

scientific article published on 12 August 2016

Gender-attributable differences in outcome of ankylosing spondylitis: long-term results from the Outcome in Ankylosing Spondylitis International Study

scientific article published on 18 September 2015

Greetings from the editor

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Greetings from the editor 2019

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Hierarchy of Impairment of Spinal Mobility Measures in Ankylosing Spondylitis: Twelve-Year Data

scientific article published on 18 May 2015

Higher disease activity leads to more structural damage in the spine in ankylosing spondylitis: 12-year longitudinal data from the OASIS cohort

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Historically controlled comparison of glucocorticoids with or without tocilizumab versus supportive care only in patients with COVID-19-associated cytokine storm syndrome: results of the CHIC study

scientific article published on 20 July 2020

How Do Gastrointestinal or Liver Comorbidities Influence the Choice of Pain Treatment in Inflammatory Arthritis? A Cochrane Systematic Review

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

Impact of Chronic Diseases and Multimorbidity on Health and Health Care Costs: The Additional Role of Musculoskeletal Disorders

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Impact of socioeconomic gradients within and between countries on health of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA): Lessons from QUEST RA

scientific article published on October 1, 2012

Improving the peer review skills of young rheumatologists and researchers in rheumatology: the EMEUNET Peer Review Mentoring Program

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

In patients with axial spondyloarthritis, inflammation on MRI of the spine is longitudinally related to disease activity only in men: 2 years of the axial spondyloarthritis DESIR cohort

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In rheumatoid arthritis, changes in autoantibody levels reflect intensity of immunosuppression, not subsequent treatment response

scholarly article by Emma C de Moel et al published 18 January 2019 in Arthritis Research and Therapy

In rheumatoid arthritis, country of residence has an important influence on fatigue: results from the multinational COMORA study

scientific article published on 18 December 2015

In wealthier countries, patients perceive worse impact of the disease although they have lower objectively assessed disease activity: results from the cross-sectional COMORA study

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Individual-level and country-level socioeconomic determinants of disease outcomes in SpA: multinational, cross-sectional study (ASAS-COMOSPA)

scientific article published on 23 January 2019

Inequities in access to biologic and synthetic DMARDs across 46 European countries

scientific article published on 6 March 2013

Inequity in biological DMARD prescription for spondyloarthritis across the globe: results from the ASAS-COMOSPA study.

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Inflammation of the sacroiliac joints and spine on MRI predicts structural changes on MRI in axial spondyloarthritis: 5-year data from DESIR

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

Influence of disease activity on RA treatment choices in countries with restricted access to expensive, innovative drugs: a discrete choice experiment among rheumatologists

scientific article published on 4 September 2017

Is it Useful to Repeat Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Sacroiliac Joints After Three Months or One Year in the Diagnosis of Patients With Chronic Back Pain and Suspected Axial Spondyloarthritis?

scientific article published on 06 February 2019

Is radiographic progression in radiographic axial spondyloarthritis related to matrix metalloproteinase degradation of extracellular matrix?

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Is the Site of Back Pain Related to the Location of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Lesions in Patients With Chronic Back Pain? Results From the Spondyloarthritis Caught Early Cohort

scientific article published on 2 August 2016

Is treat-to-target really working in rheumatoid arthritis? a longitudinal analysis of a cohort of patients treated in daily practice (RA BIODAM)

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Large country differences in work outcomes in patients with RA - an analysis in the multinational study COMORA.

scientific article published on 29 September 2017

Less educated and older patients have reduced access to biologic DMARDs even in a country with highly developed social welfare (Norway): results from Norwegian cohort study NOR-DMARD.

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Lifestyle factors may modify the effect of disease activity on radiographic progression in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: a longitudinal analysis

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Low-dose CT detects more progression of bone formation in comparison to conventional radiography in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: results from the SIAS cohort

scientific article published on 10 November 2017

Lower education and living in countries with lower wealth are associated with higher disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis: results from the multinational COMORA study

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Management of psoriatic arthritis in 2016: a comparison of EULAR and GRAPPA recommendations

scientific article published on 10 November 2016

Measures of Adult Shoulder Function

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Multinational evidence-based recommendations for pain management by pharmacotherapy in inflammatory arthritis: integrating systematic literature research and expert opinion of a broad panel of rheumatologists in the 3e Initiative

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Neutral lateral fingertip-to-floor distance can be derived from height

scientific article published on 19 June 2014

New GRAPPA and EULAR recommendations for the management of psoriatic arthritis.

scientific article published on 11 January 2017

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for axial spondyloarthritis (ankylosing spondylitis and non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis)

scientific article (published 2015-07-17)

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for axial spondyloarthritis (ankylosing spondylitis and non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis)

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Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs for Axial Spondyloarthritis: A Cochrane Review

scientific article published on February 2016

Opportunistic infections and biologic therapies in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: consensus recommendations for infection reporting during clinical trials and postmarketing surveillance.

scientific article published on 22 September 2015

Optimisation of a treat-to-target approach in rheumatoid arthritis: strategies for the 3-month time point

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Outcomes and Findings of the International Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) BIODAM Cohort for Validation of Soluble Biomarkers in RA

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Outcomes assessed in trials of gout and accordance with OMERACT-proposed domains: a systematic literature review

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Pain management for inflammatory arthritis (rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and other spondyloarthritis) and gastrointestinal or liver comorbidity

scientific article published on January 18, 2012

Pain management for inflammatory arthritis and gastrointestinal or liver comorbidity

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Patient-reported outcomes from a randomised phase III study of baricitinib in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and an inadequate response to biological agents (RA-BEACON).

scientific article published on 31 October 2016

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis facing sick leave or work disability meet varying regulations: a study among rheumatologists and patients from 44 European countries

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

Patients' preferences and economic considerations play an important role in treatment decisions: a discrete choice experiment among rheumatologists

scientific article published on 22 October 2016

Patients' satisfaction with the rheumatology day care unit

scientific article published in October 2011

Percentage of progressors in imaging: can we ignore regressors?

scholarly article by Alexandre Sepriano et al published 26 February 2019 in RMD open

Performance and Predictors of Minimal Disease Activity Response in Peripheral Spondyloarthritis Patients Treated With Adalimumab

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

Performance of the ASAS classification criteria for axial and peripheral spondyloarthritis: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis

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Person-focused care for young people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases: young rheumatologists' and EULAR Young PARE perspectives

scientific article published on 26 September 2017

Pharmacological treatment of psoriatic arthritis: a systematic literature review for the 2015 update of the EULAR recommendations for the management of psoriatic arthritis

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Portuguese recommendations on "How to diagnose, monitor, and treat undifferentiated peripheral arthritis": systematic review of the literature and the experts' opinion

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Prevalence and social burden of active chronic low back pain in the adult Portuguese population: results from a national survey

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Prevalence of rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases and their impact on health-related quality of life, physical function and mental health in Portugal: results from EpiReumaPt- a national health survey

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

Prognostic factors for recovery and non-recovery in patients with non-specific neck pain: a protocol for a systematic literature review

scholarly article by Lucia Domingues et al published 25 November 2018 in BMJ Open

RAPID and FAST4WARD trials: certolizumab pegol for rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on September 1, 2010

Reference curves for the Australian/Canadian Hand Osteoarthritis Index in the middle-aged Dutch population

scientific article published on 11 January 2017

Relationship between types of radiographic damage and disability in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in the EURIDISS cohort: a longitudinal study

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Response to 'Neither earlier not late tocilizumab improved outcomes in the intensive care unit patients with COVID-19 in a retrospective cohort study' by Moiseev et al

scientific article published on 30 October 2020

Response to 'dual training in general internal medicine and rheumatology: the Irish context' by Dr Sheane

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Response to: '2016 update of the EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis: no utopia for patients in low/middle-income countries?' by Misra et al.

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Response to: 'Concerns on glucocorticoid use for Japanese patients with established rheumatoid arthritis' by Oiwa

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Response to: 'Correspondence on 'Historically controlled comparison of glucocorticoids with or without tocilizumab versus supportive care only in patients with COVID-19- associated cytokine storm syndrome: results of the CHIC study'' by Calvo-Aranda

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

Response to: 'High dosage of Methylprednisolone as a rescue, second-line treatment in COVID-19 patients who failed to respond to Tocilizumab' by Conticini et al

scientific article published on 19 August 2020

Response to: 'Reactive arthritis, a missing link: comment on the recent article from Sepriano et al' by Zeidler and Hudson

scientific article published on 02 April 2020

Response to: 'The GRAPPA-OMERACT initiative to standardise outcomes in Psoriatic Arthritis clinical trials and longitudinal observational studies' by Tillet et al.

scientific article published on 16 August 2017

Response to: 'The role of temporal artery biopsy in patients with giant cell arteritis is debated' by Moiseev et al.

scientific article published on 13 March 2018

Response to: ‘Evidence for treating rheumatoid arthritis to target: results of a systematic literature search update’ by Goswamiet al

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Rheumatology training experience across Europe: analysis of core competences

scientific article published on 23 September 2016

Sacroiliac radiographic progression in recent onset axial spondyloarthritis: the 5-year data of the DESIR cohort

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Safety of synthetic and biological DMARDs: a systematic literature review informing the 2013 update of the EULAR recommendations for management of rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on 08 January 2014

Safety of synthetic and biological DMARDs: a systematic literature review informing the 2016 update of the EULAR recommendations for management of rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on 15 March 2017

Safety, immunogenicity and efficacy after switching from reference infliximab to biosimilar SB2 compared with continuing reference infliximab and SB2 in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results of a randomised, double-blind, phase III transition s

scientific article published on 17 October 2017

Scoring radiographic progression in ankylosing spondylitis: should we use the modified Stoke Ankylosing Spondylitis Spine Score (mSASSS) or the Radiographic Ankylosing Spondylitis Spinal Score (RASSS)?

scientific article published on 17 January 2013

Sick leave and its predictors in ankylosing spondylitis: long-term results from the Outcome in Ankylosing Spondylitis International Study

Socio-economic inequalities in occurrence and health care costs in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases: results from a Spanish population-based study including 1.9 million persons.

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Spinal radiographic progression in early axial Spondyloarthritis: Five-year results from the DESIR cohort

scientific article published on 14 November 2019

Testing treat-to-target outcomes with initial methotrexate monotherapy compared with initial tumour necrosis factor inhibitor (adalimumab) plus methotrexate in early rheumatoid arthritis.

scientific article published on 16 November 2017

The Minimum Clinically Important Improvement and Patient-acceptable Symptom State in the BASDAI and BASFI for Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis

scientific article published on 15 June 2016

The OMERACT Core Domain Set for Clinical Trials of Shoulder Disorders

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

The Use of Analgesic and Other Pain-Relief Drugs to Manage Chronic Low Back Pain: Results from a National Survey

scientific article published on 21 May 2016

The eumusc.net standards of care for rheumatoid arthritis: importance and current implementation according to patients and healthcare providers in the Netherlands

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The new editor greets you.

scientific article published in October 2017

The patient perspective on absence of disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis: a survey to identify key domains of patient-perceived remission.

scientific article published on 30 November 2016

Three handy tips and a practical guide to improve your propensity score models.

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Ultrasound cut-off values for intima-media thickness of temporal, facial and axillary arteries in giant cell arteritis

scientific article published in September 2017

Ultrasound cut-off values for intima-media thickness of temporal, facial and axillary arteries in giant cell arteritis

scientific article published on 20 April 2017

Uncovering the heterogeneity of disease impact in axial spondyloarthritis: bivariate trajectories of disease activity and quality of life

Unmet need in rheumatology: reports from the Targeted Therapies meeting 2018

scientific article published on 02 February 2019

Variations in criteria regulating treatment with reimbursed biologic DMARDs across European countries. Are differences related to country's wealth?

scientific article published on 12 August 2013

What is axial spondyloarthritis? A latent class and transition analysis in the SPACE and DESIR cohorts

scientific article published on 24 January 2020

Which imaging outcomes for axSpA are most sensitive to change? A 5-Year analysis of The DESIR Cohort

scientific article published on 25 September 2020

Work outcome in persons with musculoskeletal diseases: comparison with other chronic diseases & the role of musculoskeletal diseases in multimorbidity

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Work participation in spondyloarthritis across countries: analysis from the ASAS-COMOSPA study

scientific article published on 02 June 2018

Workforce requirements in rheumatology: a systematic literature review informing the development of a workforce prediction risk of bias tool and the EULAR points to consider.

scientific article published on 5 December 2018