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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Influence of replacing tuberculin skin test with ex vivo interferon γ release assays on decision to administer prophylactic antituberculosis antibiotics before anti-TNF therapy (17 January, 2012) Free

  Xavier Mariette, Gabriel Baron, Florence Tubach, Frédéric Lioté, Bernard Combe, Corinne Miceli-Richard, René-Marc Flipo, Philippe Goupille, Matthieu Allez, Dominique Salmon, Dominique Emilie, Guislaine Carcelain, Philippe Ravaud
• Extended report: Screening for latent tuberculosis infection: performance of tuberculin skin test and interferon-γ release assays under real-life conditions (14 May, 2012) Free

  S Kleinert, H-P Tony, K Krueger, J Detert, F Mielke, K Rockwitz, R Schwenke, G R Burmester, R Diel, M Feuchtenberger, C Kneitz
• Extended report: Exploring the cost–utility of stratified primary care management for low back pain compared with current best practice within risk-defined subgroups (4 April, 2012)

  David G T Whitehurst, Stirling Bryan, Martyn Lewis, Jonathan Hill, Elaine M Hay
• Extended report: Effect of adherence to European treatment recommendations on early arthritis outcome: data from the ESPOIR cohort (6 May, 2012)

  Cécile Escalas, Marie Dalichampt, Bernard Combe, Bruno Fautrel, Francis Guillemin, Pierre Durieux, Maxime Dougados, Philippe Ravaud
• Extended report:

  Variation in the ICAM1–ICAM4–ICAM5 locus is associated with systemic lupus erythematosus susceptibility in multiple ancestries

  (20 April, 2012) Free

  Kwangwoo Kim, Elizabeth E Brown, Chan-Bum Choi, Marta E Alarcón-Riquelme, Jennifer A Kelly, Stuart B Glenn, Joshua O Ojwang, Adam Adler, Hye-Soon Lee, Susan A Boackle, Lindsey A Criswell, Graciela S Alarcón, Jeffrey C Edberg, Anne M Stevens, Chaim O Jacob, Gary S Gilkeson, Diane L Kamen, Betty P Tsao, Juan-Manuel Anaya, Joel M Guthridge, Swapan K Nath, Bruce Richardson, Amr H Sawalha, Young Mo Kang, Seung Cheol Shim, Chang-Hee Suh, Soo-Kon Lee, Chang-sik Kim, Joan T Merrill, Michelle Petri, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, Luis M Vilá, Timothy B Niewold, Javier Martin, Bernardo A Pons-Estel, Timothy J Vyse, Barry I Freedman, Kathy L Moser, Patrick M Gaffney, Adrienne Williams, Mary Comeau, John D Reveille, Judith A James, R Hal Scofield, Carl D Langefeld, Kenneth M Kaufman, John B Harley, Changwon Kang, Robert P Kimberly, Sang-Cheol Bae
• Extended report: Positivity for anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide is associated with a better response to abatacept: data from the ‘Orencia and Rheumatoid Arthritis’ registry (21 May, 2012)

  J E Gottenberg, P Ravaud, A Cantagrel, B Combe, R M Flipo, T Schaeverbeke, E Houvenagel, P Gaudin, D Loeuille, S Rist, M Dougados, J Sibilia, X Le Loët, C Marcelli, T Bardin, I Pane, G Baron, X Mariette
• Extended report: Drug retention rates and relevant risk factors for drug discontinuation due to adverse events in rheumatoid arthritis patients receiving anticytokine therapy with different target molecules (13 April, 2012)

  Ryoko Sakai, Michi Tanaka, Toshihiro Nanki, Kaori Watanabe, Hayato Yamazaki, Ryuji Koike, Hayato Nagasawa, Koichi Amano, Kazuyoshi Saito, Yoshiya Tanaka, Satoshi Ito, Takayuki Sumida, Atsushi Ihata, Yoshiaki Ishigatsubo, Tatsuya Atsumi, Takao Koike, Atsuo Nakajima, Naoto Tamura, Takao Fujii, Hiroaki Dobashi, Shigeto Tohma, Takahiko Sugihara, Yukitaka Ueki, Akira Hashiramoto, Atsushi Kawakami, Noboru Hagino, Nobuyuki Miyasaka, Masayoshi Harigai, for the REAL Study Group
• Extended report: Breaking the Law of Valgus: the surprising and unexplained prevalence of medial patellofemoral cartilage damage (25 April, 2012)

  K Douglas Gross, Jingbo Niu, Joshua J Stefanik, Ali Guermazi, Frank W Roemer, Leena Sharma, Michael C Nevitt, Neil A Segal, Cora E Lewis, David T Felson
• Extended report: Effects of belimumab, a B lymphocyte stimulator-specific inhibitor, on disease activity across multiple organ domains in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: combined results from two phase III trials (1 May, 2012)

  Susan Manzi, Jorge Sánchez-Guerrero, Joan T Merrill, Richard Furie, Dafna Gladman, Sandra V Navarra, Ellen M Ginzler, David P D'Cruz, Andrea Doria, Simon Cooper, Z John Zhong, Douglas Hough, William Freimuth, Michelle A Petri
• Extended report: Canakinumab for acute gouty arthritis in patients with limited treatment options: results from two randomised, multicentre, active-controlled, double-blind trials and their initial extensions (14 May, 2012)

  Naomi Schlesinger, Rieke E Alten, Thomas Bardin, H Ralph Schumacher, Mark Bloch, Alberto Gimona, Gerhard Krammer, Valda Murphy, Dominik Richard, Alexander K So
• Extended report: Down-titration and discontinuation of infliximab in rheumatoid arthritis patients with stable low disease activity and stable treatment: an observational cohort study (13 April, 2012)

  Aatke van der Maas, Wietske Kievit, Bart J F van den Bemt, Frank H J van den Hoogen, Piet L van Riel, Alfons A den Broeder
• Extended report: Identifying core domains to assess flare in rheumatoid arthritis: an OMERACT international patient and provider combined Delphi consensus (6 July, 2012)

  Susan J Bartlett, Sarah Hewlett, Clifton O Bingham, Thasia G Woodworth, Rieke Alten, Christoph Pohl, Ernest H Choy, Tessa Sanderson, Annelies Boonen, Vivian Bykerk, Amye L Leong, Vibeke Strand, Daniel E Furst, Robin Christensen, The OMERACT RA Flare Working Group
• Concise report: Comparative effectiveness of switching to alternative tumour necrosis factor (TNF) antagonists versus switching to rituximab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis who failed previous TNF antagonists: the MIRAR Study (26 June, 2012)

  Juan J Gomez-Reino, Jose Ramon Maneiro, Jorge Ruiz, Rosa Roselló, Raimon Sanmarti, Ana Belen Romero
• Concise report: Incidence of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a national population-based study (27 June, 2012)

  Elizabeth V Arkema, Ronald F van Vollenhoven, Johan Askling
• Concise report: Rituximab in psoriatic arthritis: an exploratory evaluation (24 July, 2012)

  Esther Jimenez-Boj, Tanja A Stamm, Martina Sadlonova, Jozef Rovensky, Helena Raffayová, Burkhard Leeb, Klaus Peter Machold, Winfried B Graninger, Josef S Smolen