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The power of the protocolMarissa Lassere
Department of Rheumatology, St George Hospital, 2217 New South Wales, Kogarah, Australia
Lancet 360:1620-2. 2002- Recurrent pregnancy loss with antiphospholipid antibody: a systematic review of therapeutic trialsMarianne Empson
Clinical Immunology Service, Auckland Hospital, New Zealand
Obstet Gynecol 99:135-44. 2002..To explore the effects of interventions given to improve pregnancy outcome in women with antiphospholipid antibodies... - The Sharp/van der Heijde method out-performed the Larsen/Scott method on the individual patient level in assessing radiographs in early rheumatoid arthritisKarin Bruynesteyn
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Maastricht, P.O. Box 5800, 6202 AZ, Maastricht, The Netherlands
J Clin Epidemiol 57:502-12. 2004..2%). The SvH also assessed changes in scores in individuals with less measurement error (SDCs 1.3-2.2%) than the LS (SDCs 2.3-3.9%). CONCLUSION: For early RA patients, the SvH seems preferable if analyses on individual level are included... - Treatment of antiphospholipid syndrome in pregnancy--a systematic review of randomized therapeutic trialsMarissa Lassere
Department of Rheumatology, St George Hospital, Gray Street, Kogarah, 2217, NSW, Australia
Thromb Res 114:419-26. 2004..Ideally, co-operative large fully blinded placebo controlled randomized trials of therapy in patients with obstetric aPL stratified by different levels of risk are still required... - Training and calibration improve inter-reader reliability of joint damage assessment using magnetic resonance image scoring and computerized erosion volume measurementPaul Bird
Rheumatology Department and the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Department, St George Hospital, Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia
J Rheumatol 32:1452-8. 2005.... - Simulation studies of surrogate endpoint validation using single trial and multitrial statistical approachesMarissa Lassere
Department of Rheumatology, St George Hospital, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Rheumatol 34:616-9. 2007..This report examines one component of the schema. It surveys the literature on methods of statistical validation of surrogate markers and compares these methods head-to-head using simulated datasets... - Summary findings of a systematic review of the ultrasound assessment of synovitisFredrick Joshua
Department of Rheumatology, St George Hospital, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia
J Rheumatol 34:839-47. 2007..The review highlights the current gaps in the literature, including a lack of reliability data with respect to intra-occasion and intra- and inter-reader reliability. Current work by our group is addressing these issues... - A multireader reliability study comparing conventional high-field magnetic resonance imaging with extremity low-field MRI in rheumatoid arthritisPaul Bird
Department of Rheumatology, St George Hospital, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Rheumatol 34:854-6. 2007..However, for synovitis and bone edema, considerable intermachine and interreader variability was found. Further studies are needed before recommendations on multireader E-MRI assessment of these pathologies can be given... - A multicenter reliability study of extremity-magnetic resonance imaging in the longitudinal evaluation of rheumatoid arthritisPhilip G Conaghan
Academic Unit of Musculoskeletal Disease, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
J Rheumatol 34:857-8. 2007..Overall, E-MRI demonstrated ability to detect change comparable to that reported for high-field MRI for erosion and synovitis... - Developing a magnetic resonance imaging scoring system for peripheral psoriatic arthritisFiona McQueen
Department of Rheumatology, Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand
J Rheumatol 34:859-61. 2007..Measures to improve reliability for future exercises will include reviewing definitions of pathological features and prior reader calibration... - Documenting damage progression in a two-year longitudinal study of rheumatoid arthritis patients with established disease (the DAMAGE study cohort): is there an advantage in the use of magnetic resonance imaging as compared with plain radiography?Paul Bird
St George Hospital, Belgrave Street, Kogarah, New South Wales 2217, Australia
Arthritis Rheum 50:1383-9. 2004..The present study evaluated the progression of erosive damage in patients with established RA by using limited field of view MRI and comparing the results with those obtained by radiography... - OMERACT Rheumatoid Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies. Core set of MRI acquisitions, joint pathology definitions, and the OMERACT RA-MRI scoring systemMikkel Østergaard
Danish Research Center of Magnetic Resonance and Department of Rheumatology at the Copenhagen University Hospital at Hvidovre, Denmark
J Rheumatol 30:1385-6. 2003..MRI definitions of important RA joint pathologies, and a "core set" of basic MRI sequences for use in RA are also suggested... - Computerized measurement of magnetic resonance imaging erosion volumes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a comparison with existing magnetic resonance imaging scoring systems and standard clinical outcome measuresPaul Bird
Rheumatology Department, St George Hospital, Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia
Arthritis Rheum 48:614-24. 2003.... - OMERACT Rheumatoid Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies. Exercise 4: an international multicenter longitudinal study using the RA-MRI ScorePhilip Conaghan
Academic Unit of Musculoskeletal and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Leeds, UK
J Rheumatol 30:1376-9. 2003..Bone defects had the poorest agreement and have been omitted from new scoring recommendations. Despite limited training, multicenter readers demonstrated acceptable levels of agreement... - OMERACT Rheumatoid Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies. Exercise 3: an international multicenter reliability study using the RA-MRI ScoreMarissa Lassere
Department of Rheumatology, St George Hospital, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Rheumatol 30:1366-75. 2003..Whether the score is sensitive to change will be determined by its performance in longitudinal and intervention studies... - OMERACT Rheumatoid Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies. Summary of OMERACT 6 MR Imaging ModuleFiona McQueen
Department of Rheumatology, Auckland Hospital, New Zealand
J Rheumatol 30:1387-92. 2003..It has been endorsed by the MRI working group and OMERACT 6 participants as useful for inclusion as an outcome measure in clinical trials... - Standardizing assessment and reporting of adverse effects in rheumatology clinical trials II: the Rheumatology Common Toxicity Criteria v.2.0Thasia Woodworth
Roche Pharmaceuticals, Welwyn Garden City, UK
J Rheumatol 34:1401-14. 2007..At OMERACT 8, a workshop group reviewed the use of the RCTC and other instruments in rheumatology clinical trials to date, to revise and to stimulate its implementation... - Rheumatoid arthritis: time for trials of therapeutic targetsJohn Edmonds
J Rheumatol 29:2041-4. 2002 - Repair of erosions in rheumatoid arthritis does occur. Results from 2 studies by the OMERACT Subcommittee on Healing of ErosionsJohn T Sharp
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
J Rheumatol 30:1102-7. 2003..This study provides evidence that repair of bone damage in RA does occur, resulting in some degree of improvement, which was recognized by a majority of a panel of experts... - The OMERACT Magnetic Resonance Imaging Inflammatory Arthritis Group - advances and prioritiesMikkel Østergaard
Department of Rheumatology, Copenhagen University Hospitals at Herlev, Denmark
J Rheumatol 34:852-3. 2007..This work focused on testing the reliability of dedicated extremity MRI in rheumatoid arthritis and on the initial steps in the development of an MRI score for peripheral psoriatic arthritis... - MCID/Low Disease Activity State Workshop: low disease activity state in rheumatoid arthritisGeorge Wells
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
J Rheumatol 30:1110-1. 2003..This article describes the process of the MCID/Low Disease Activity State Workshop at OMERACT 6 to develop such a definition... - MCID/Low Disease Activity State Workshop: summary, recommendations, and research agendaGeorge Wells
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
J Rheumatol 30:1115-8. 2003..This article presents an overview of that workshop, including results of the voting, a summary of associated discussions, recommendations, and a proposed research agenda... - Power Doppler ultrasound in musculoskeletal disease: a systematic reviewFredrick Joshua
Rheumatology Department, St George Hospital, Kogarah, NSW, Australia
Semin Arthritis Rheum 36:99-108. 2006..To evaluate the performance characteristics of power Doppler ultrasound as a diagnostic and monitoring tool in the assessment of musculoskeletal disease through a systematic review of the literature... - OMERACT Rheumatoid Arthritis MRI Studies ModuleCharles Peterfy
Synarc Inc, San Francisco, California 94105, USA
J Rheumatol 30:1364-5. 2003..This article also details the way in which the RA MRI Working Group developed and undertook a series of structured exercises to evaluate the reliability and sensitivity to change of the RA-MRI score (RAMRIS)... - Variability of precision in scoring radiographic abnormalities in rheumatoid arthritis by experienced readersJohn T Sharp
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
J Rheumatol 31:1062-72. 2004..To determine the extent of precision and sources of variability among experts on scoring radiographic abnormalities in rheumatoid arthritis... - OMERACT Rheumatoid Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies. Exercise 5: an international multicenter reliability study using computerized MRI erosion volume measurementsPaul Bird
Department of Rheumatology, St George Hospital, Sydney, Australia
J Rheumatol 30:1380-4. 2003..Despite high ICC, the inter-observer reliability is not sufficient for multicenter use without prior reader training and calibration. The optimal slice thickness was not determined... - Magnetic resonance imaging computerized assessment in rheumatoid arthritis: comment on the article by Goldbach-Mansky et alPaul Bird
Arthritis Rheum 50:1011-2. 2004 - Treatment of psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis with disease modifying drugs -- comparison of drugs and adverse reactionsPhilip S Helliwell
Academic Unit of Musculoskeletal and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
J Rheumatol 35:472-6. 2008..Although it seems likely that these conditions have a different pathogenesis, the drugs used to treat them are the same. Our study used a cross-sectional clinical database to compare drug use and side-effect profile in these 2 diseases...