TY - JOUR T1 - Imminent rheumatoid arthritis can be identified in primary care JF - Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases JO - Ann Rheum Dis SP - e42 LP - e42 DO - 10.1136/annrheumdis-2017-211231 VL - 76 IS - 10 AU - Kulveer Mankia AU - Paul Emery Y1 - 2017/10/01 UR - http://ard.bmj.com/content/76/10/e42.abstract N2 - We thank Vega-Morales et al1 for their interest in our proposed approach for identifying individuals at risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in a primary care setting.2 ,3 The authors agree that primary care is usually the first point of contact for patients with RA when they initially develop symptoms. For this reason, they agree that general practitioners (GPs) are well placed to be involved in screening strategies to identify individuals at risk of progressing to RA.1Vega-Morales et al advocate the squeeze test (Gaenslen's compression test) as a screening tool to aid GPs in identifying at-risk individuals for onward referral to … ER -