PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Helga Radner
AU  - Katerina Chatzidionysiou
AU  - Elena Nikiphorou
AU  - Laure Gossec
AU  - Kimme L Hyrich
AU  - Condruta Zabalan
AU  - Yvonne van Eijk-Hustings
AU  - Paula R Williamson
AU  - Andra Balanescu
AU  - Gerd R Burmester
AU  - Loreto Carmona
AU  - Maxime Dougados
AU  - Axel Finckh
AU  - Glenn Haugeberg
AU  - Merete Lund Hetland
AU  - Susan Oliver
AU  - Duncan Porter
AU  - Karim Raza
AU  - Patrick Ryan
AU  - Maria Jose Santos
AU  - Annette van der Helm-van Mil
AU  - Piet van Riel
AU  - Gabrielle von Krause
AU  - Jakub Zavada
AU  - William G Dixon
AU  - Johan Askling
TI  - 2017 EULAR recommendations for a core data set to support observational research and clinical care in rheumatoid arthritis
AID  - 10.1136/annrheumdis-2017-212256
DP  - 2018 Apr 01
TA  - Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
PG  - 476--479
VI  - 77
IP  - 4
4099  - http://ard.bmj.com/content/77/4/476.short
4100  - http://ard.bmj.com/content/77/4/476.full
SO  - Ann Rheum Dis2018 Apr 01; 77
AB  - Personalised medicine, new discoveries and studies on rare exposures or outcomes require large samples that are increasingly difficult for any single investigator to obtain. Collaborative work is limited by heterogeneities, both what is being collected and how it is defined. To develop a core set for data collection in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) research which (1) allows harmonisation of data collection in future observational studies, (2) acts as a common data model against which existing databases can be mapped and (3) serves as a template for standardised data collection in routine clinical practice to support generation of research-quality data. A multistep, international multistakeholder consensus process was carried out involving voting via online surveys and two face-to-face meetings. A core set of 21 items (‘what to collect’) and their instruments (‘how to collect’) was agreed: age, gender, disease duration, diagnosis of RA, body mass index, smoking, swollen/tender joints, patient/evaluator global, pain, quality of life, function, composite scores, acute phase reactants, serology, structural damage, treatment and comorbidities. The core set should facilitate collaborative research, allow for comparisons across studies and harmonise future data from clinical practice via electronic medical record systems.