OMERACT: An international initiative to improve outcome measurement in rheumatology

OMERACT is the acronym for an international, informally organized network initiated in 1992 aimed at improving outcome measurement in rheumatology. Chaired by an executive committee, it organizes consensus conferences in a 2-yearly cycle that circles the globe. Data driven recommendations are prepar...

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Autores principales: Tugwell, Peter, Boers, Maarten, Brooks, Peter, Simon, Lee, Strand, Vibeke, Idzerda, Leanne
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2169260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18039364
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-8-38
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author Tugwell, Peter
Boers, Maarten
Brooks, Peter
Simon, Lee
Strand, Vibeke
Idzerda, Leanne
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description OMERACT is the acronym for an international, informally organized network initiated in 1992 aimed at improving outcome measurement in rheumatology. Chaired by an executive committee, it organizes consensus conferences in a 2-yearly cycle that circles the globe. Data driven recommendations are prepared and updated by expert working groups. Recommendations include core sets of measures for most of the major rheumatologic conditions. Since 2002 patients have been actively engaged in the process.
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spelling pubmed-21692602007-12-29 OMERACT: An international initiative to improve outcome measurement in rheumatology Tugwell, Peter Boers, Maarten Brooks, Peter Simon, Lee Strand, Vibeke Idzerda, Leanne Trials Commentary OMERACT is the acronym for an international, informally organized network initiated in 1992 aimed at improving outcome measurement in rheumatology. Chaired by an executive committee, it organizes consensus conferences in a 2-yearly cycle that circles the globe. Data driven recommendations are prepared and updated by expert working groups. Recommendations include core sets of measures for most of the major rheumatologic conditions. Since 2002 patients have been actively engaged in the process. BioMed Central 2007-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC2169260/ /pubmed/18039364 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-8-38 Text en Copyright © 2007 Tugwell et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Tugwell, Peter
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Simon, Lee
Strand, Vibeke
Idzerda, Leanne
OMERACT: An international initiative to improve outcome measurement in rheumatology
title OMERACT: An international initiative to improve outcome measurement in rheumatology
title_full OMERACT: An international initiative to improve outcome measurement in rheumatology
title_fullStr OMERACT: An international initiative to improve outcome measurement in rheumatology
title_full_unstemmed OMERACT: An international initiative to improve outcome measurement in rheumatology
title_short OMERACT: An international initiative to improve outcome measurement in rheumatology
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2169260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18039364
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-8-38
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