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Report to the General Assembly in Stockholm, June 2002
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At the last annual EULAR congress in Prague the standing committee organised a second workshop on measurement issues. The first workshop took place at the first annual congress in Nice. The meeting was well attended and very much appreciated. Therefore, it was decided to offer a third workshop at this year's congress. During the congress an interactive session on behalf of the standing committee was provided by Professor Maarten Boers (Department of Clinical Epidemiology at the Free University, Amsterdam) and Robert Landewé (Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Maastricht, Maastricht). The topic was design and analysis of a randomised clinical trial (RCT).
A major undertaking of this standing committee is the multicountry prevalence study to detect cases of rheumatoid arthritis and spondyloarthritis. The study consists of two phases. Phase I—in which screening by telephone interview is the core activity—is financially supported by EULAR. Professor Francis Guillemin from
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