EULAR Recommendations

 

The EULAR Standing Committee for Clinical Affairs (ESCCA) regularly establishes and publishes recommendations for the treatment of various rheumatic disorders. Each of these recommendations is developed by a group of specialists in their field.

 

Recommendations for management

Josef S Smolen, Robert Landewé, Ferdinand C Breedveld, Maxime Dougados, Paul Emery, Cecile Gaujoux-Viala, Simone Gorter, Rachel Knevel, Jackie Nam, Monika Schoels, Daniel Aletaha, Maya Buch, Laure Gossec, Tom Huizinga, Johannes W J W Bijlsma, Gerd Burmester, Bernard Combe, Maurizio Cutolo, Cem Gabay, Juan Gomez-Reino, Marios Kouloumas, Tore K Kvien, Emilio Martin-Mola, Iain McInnes, Karel Pavelka, Piet van Riel, Marieke Scholte, David L Scott, Tuulikki Sokka, Guido Valesini, Ronald van Vollenhoven, Kevin L Winthrop, John Wong, Angela Zink, Désirée van der Heijde

 

EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis with synthetic and biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs

 

Ann Rheum Dis Published Online First: 5 May 2010 doi:10.1136/ard.2009.126532

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Marta Mosca, Chiara Tani, Martin Aringer, Stefano Bombardieri, Dimitrios Boumpas, Robin Brey, Ricard Cervera, Andrea Doria, David Jayne, Munther A Khamashta, Annegret Kuhn, Caroline Gordon, Michelle Petri, Ole Petter Rekvig, Matthias Schneider, Yaniv Sherer, Yehuda Shoenfeld, Josef S Smolen, Rosaria Talarico, Angela Tincani, Ronald F van Vollenhoven, Michael M Ward, Victoria P Werth, Loreto Carmona

 

EULAR Recommendations for monitoring systemic lupus erythematosus patients in clinical practice and in observational studies  

 

Ann Rheum Dis. Jul 2010; 69: 1269-1274

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L Gossec, M Dougados, N Rincheval, A Balanescu, D T Boumpas, S Canadelo, L Carmona, J-P Daurès, M de Wit, B A C Dijkmans, M Englbrecht, Z Gunendi, T Heiberg, J R Kirwan, E M Mola, M Matucci-Cerinic, K Otsa, G Schett, T Sokka, G A Wells, G J Aanerud, A Celano, A Dudkin, C Hernandez, K Koutsogianni, F N Akca, A-M Petre, P Richards, M Scholte-Voshaar, G Von Krause, T K Kvien

 

Elaboration of the preliminary Rheumatoid Arthritis Impact of Disease (RAID) score: a EULAR initiative

 

Ann Rheum Dis, Nov 2009; 68: 1680-1685

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M JL Peters, D PM Symmons, D McCarey, B AC Dijkmans, P Nicola, T K Kvien, I B McInnes, H Haentzschel, M A Gonzalez-Gay, S Provan, A G Semb,  P Sidiropoulos, G Kitas, Y M Smulders, M J Soubrier, Z Szekanecz, N G Sattar and M T Nurmohamed

 

EULAR evidence-based recommendations for cardiovascular risk management in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other forms of inflammatory arthritis

 

Ann Rheum Dis, Feb 2010; 69: 325-331

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M C Van der Goes, J WG Jacobs, M Boers, T Andrews, M AM Blom-Bakkers, F Buttgereit, N Caeyers, E H Choy, M Cutolo, J AP Da Silva, L Guillevin, M Holland, J R Kirwan, J Rovensky, K G Saag, G Severijns, S Webber, R Westhovens and J WJ Bijlsma

 

Patients' and rheumatologists' perspectives on glucocorticoids an exercise to improve the implementation of the EULAR recommendations on the management of systemic glucocorticoid therapy in rheumatic diseases.

 

Ann Rheum Dis, Published Online First: 17 September 2009. doi:10.1136/ard.2009.114579

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Raphaèle Seror, Philippe Ravaud, Simon Bowman, Gabriel Baron, Athanasios Tzioufas, Elke Theander, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg, Hendrika Bootsma, Xavier Mariette, and Claudio Vitali

 

EULAR Sjögren's Syndrome Disease Activity Index (ESSDAI): Development of a consensus systemic disease activity index in primary Sjögren's syndrome

 

Ann Rheum Dis, June 2010; 69: 1103-1109

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U Kiltz, D van der Heijde, H Mielants, E Feldtkeller, and J Braun, on behalf of the PARE/EULAR patient initiative group

 

ASAS/EULAR recommendations for the management of ankylosing spondylitis - the patient version

 

Ann Rheum Dis, Sept 2009; 68: 1381-1386

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O Kowal-Bielecka, R Landewé, J Avouac, S Chwiesko, I Miniati, L Czirjak, P Clements, C Denton, D Farge, K Fligelstone, I Földvari, D E Furst, U Müller-Ladner, J Seibold, R M Silver, K Takehara, B Garay Toth, A Tyndall, G Valentini, F van den Hoogen, F Wigley, F Zulian, Marco Matucci-Cerinic, and the EUSTAR co-authors

 

EULAR recommendations for the treatment of systemic sclerosis: a report from the EULAR Scleroderma Trials and Research group (EUSTAR)

 

Ann Rheum Dis, May 2009; 68: 620-628

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G Hatemi, A Silman, D Bang, B Bodaghi, A M Chamberlain, A Gül, M H Houman, I Kötter, I Olivieri, C Salvarani, P P Sfikakis, A Siva, M R Stanford, N Stübiger, S Yurdakul and H Yazici

 

EULAR recommendations for the management of Behçet disease

 

Ann Rheum Dis, Dec 2008, 67: 1656-1662

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L Gossec, M Dougados, C Phillips, M Hammoudeh, K de Vlam, K Pavelka, T Pham, J Braun, J Sieper, I Olivieri, D van der Heijde, E Collantes, M Stone, T K Kvien, on behalf of ASAS (ASsessment in AS international working group)

 

Dissemination and evaluation of the ASAS/EULAR recommendations for the management of ankylosing spondylitis: results of a study among 1507 rheumatologists

 

Ann Rheum Dis, June 2008; 67: 782-788

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S F Carville, S Arendt-Nielsen, H Bliddal, F Blotman, J C Branco, D Buskila, J A P Da Silva, B Danneskiold-Samsøe, F Dincer, C Henriksson, K G Henriksson, E Kosek, K Longley, G M McCarthy, S Perrot, M Puszczewicz, P Sarzi-Puttini, A Silman, M Späth, and E H Choy


EULAR evidence based recommendations for the management of fibromyalgia syndrome


Ann Rheum Dis, Apr 2008; 67: 536-541

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G K Bertsias, J P A Ioannidis, J Boletis, S Bombardieri, R Cervera, C Dostal, J Font, I M Gilboe, F Houssiau, T Huizinga, D Isenberg, C GM Kallenberg, M Khamashta, J C Piette, M Schneider, J Smolen, G Sturfelt, A Tincani, R van Vollenhoven, C Gordon and D T Boumpas

 

EULAR recommendations for the management of systemic lupus erytematosus. Report of a Task Force of the EULAR Standing Committee for International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutics (ESCISIT)

 

Ann Rheum Dis, Feb 2008; 67: 195-205.

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J N Hoes, J W G Jacobs, M Boers, D Boumpas, F Buttgereit, N Caeyers, E H Choy, M Cutolo, J A P da Silva, G Esselens, L Guillevin, I Hafstrom, J R Kirwan, J Rovensky, A Russell, K G Saag, B Svensson, R Westhovens, H Zeidler, J W J Bijlsma

 

EULAR evidence-based recommendations on the management of systemic glucocorticoid therapy in rheumatic diseases

 

Ann Rheum Dis, Dec 2007; 66: 1560-1567.  

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W Zhang, M Doherty, B F Leeb, L Alekseeva, N K Arden, J W Bijlsma, F Dincer, K Dziedzic, H J Häuselmann, G Herrero-Beaumont, P Kaklamanis, S Lohmander, E Maheu, E Martín-Mola, K Pavelka, L Punzi, S Reiter, J Sautner, J Smolen, G Verbruggen, and I Zimmermann-Górska

 

EULAR evidence based recommendations for the management of hand osteoarthritis - report of a task force of the EULAR Standing Committee for International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutics (ESCISIT)

 

Ann Rheum Dis, Mar 2007; 66: 377 - 388.

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B Combe, R Landewé, C Lukas, H D Bolosiu, F C Breedveld, M Dougados, P Emery, G Ferraccioli, JMW Hazes, L Klareskog, K Machold, E Martin-Mola, H Nielsen, A Silman, J Smolen, and H Yazici


EULAR recommendations for the management of early arthritis: Report of a task force of the European Standing Committee for International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutics (ESCISIT)

 

Ann Rheum Dis, Jan 2007; 66: 34-45.

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W Zhang, M Doherty, T Bardin, E Pascual, V Barskova, P Conaghan, J Gerster, J Jacobs, B Leeb, F Liotè, G McCarthy, P Netter, G Nuki, F Perez-Ruiz, A Pignone, J Pimentão, L Punzi, E Roddy, T Uhlig, and I Zimmermann-Gòrska


EULAR evidence based recommendations for gout. Part II: Management. Report of a task force of the EULAR Standing Committee for International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutics (ESCISIT)


Ann Rheum Dis, Oct 2006; 65: 1312 - 1324.

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J Zochling, D van der Heijde, R Burgos-Vargas, E Collantes, J C Davis, Jr, B Dijkmans, M Dougados, P Géher, R D Inman, M A Khan, T K Kvien, M Leirisalo-Repo, I Olivieri, K Pavelka, J Sieper, G Stucki, R D Sturrock, S van der Linden, D Wendling, H Böhm, B J van Royen, and J Braun


ASAS/EULAR recommendations for the management of ankylosing spondylitis


Ann Rheum Dis, Apr 2006; 65: 442 - 452.

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J Zochling, D van der Heijde, M Dougados, and J Braun


Current evidence for the management of ankylosing spondylitis: a systematic literature review for the ASAS/EULAR management recommendations in ankylosing spondylitis


Ann Rheum Dis, Apr 2006; 65: 423 - 432.

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W Zhang, M Doherty, N Arden, B Bannwarth, J Bijlsma, K-P Gunther, H J Häuselmann, G Herrero-Beaumont, K Jordan, P Kaklamanis, B Leeb, M Lequesne, S Lohmander, B Mazieres, E Martin-Mola, K Pavelka, A Pendleton, L Punzi, B Swoboda, R Varatojo, G Verbruggen, I Zimmermann-Gorska, and M Dougados


EULAR evidence based recommendations for the management of hip osteoarthritis: report of a task force of the EULAR Standing Committee for International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutics (ESCISIT)


Ann Rheum Dis, May 2005; 64: 669 - 681.

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K M Jordan, N K Arden, M Doherty, B Bannwarth, J W J Bijlsma, P Dieppe, K Gunther, H Häuselmann, G Herrero-Beaumont, P Kaklamanis, S Lohmander, B Leeb, M Lequesne, B Mazieres, E Martin-Mola, K Pavelka, A Pendleton, L Punzi, U Serni, B Swoboda, G Verbruggen, I Zimmerman-Gorska, and M Dougados


EULAR Recommendations 2003: an evidence based approach to the management of knee osteoarthritis: Report of a Task Force of the Standing Committee for International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutic Trials (ESCISIT)


Ann Rheum Dis, Dec 2003; 62: 1145 - 1155.

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A Pendleton, N Arden, M Dougados, M Doherty, B Bannwarth, J W J Bijlsma, F Cluzeau, C Cooper, P A Dieppe, K-P Günther, H J Häuselmann, G Herrero-Beaumont, P M Kaklamanis, B Leeb, M Lequesne, S Lohmander, B Mazieres, E Martin-Mola, K Pavelka, U Serni, B Swoboda, A A Verbruggen, G Weseloh, and I Zimmermann-Gorska


EULAR recommendations for the management of knee osteoarthritis: report of a task force of the Standing Committee for International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutic Trials (ESCISIT)


Ann Rheum Dis, Dec 2000; 59: 936 - 944.

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Recommendations for conducting/reporting clinical trials

D Aletaha, R Landewe, T Karonitsch, J Bathon, M Boers, C Bombardier, S Bombardieri, H Choi, B Combe, M Dougados, P Emery, J Gomez-Reino, E Keystone, G Koch, T K Kvien, E Martin-Mola, M Matucci-Cerinic, K Michaud, J O’Dell, H Paulus, T Pincus, P Richards, L Simon, J Siegel, J S Smolen, T Sokka, V Strand, P Tugwell, D van der Heijde, P van Riel, S Vlad, R van Vollenhoven, M Ward, M Weinblatt, G Wells, B White, F Wolfe, B Zhang, A Zink, D Felson

 

Reporting disease activity in clinical trials of patients with rheumatoid arthritis: EULAR/ACR collaborative recommendations

 

Ann Rheum Dis., Oct 2008; 67: 1360 - 1364.

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C Gordon, G K Bertsias, J P A Ioannidis, J Boletis, S Bombardieri, R Cervera, C Dostál, G Font, I-M Gilboe, F Houssiau, T WJ Huizinga, D Isenberg, C G M Kallenberg, M A Khamashta, J-C Piette, M Schneider, J S Smolen, G Sturfelt, A Tincani, R Van Vollenhoven and D T Boumpas

 

EULAR points to consider for conducting clinical trials in systemic lupus erythematosus

 

Ann Rheum Dis., April 2009; 68: 470 - 476.

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B Hellmich, O Flossmann, W L Gross, P Bacon, J W Cohen-Tervaert,
L Guillevin, D Jayne, A Mahr, P A Merkel, H Raspe, D GI Scott, J Witter,
H Yazici and R A Luqmani

 

EULAR recommendations for conducting clinical studies and/or clinical trials in systemic vasculitis: Focus on ANCA-associated vasculitis

 

Ann Rheum Dis, May 2007; 66: 605 - 617.

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Classification and diagnosis criteria / response criteria

Nicolino Ruperto, Seza Ozen, Angela Pistorio, Pavla Dolezalova, Paul Brogan, David A Cabral, Ruben Cuttica, Raju Khubchandani, Daniel J Lovell, Kathleen M O'Neil, Pierre Quartier, Angelo Ravelli, Silvia M Iusan, Giovanni Filocamo, Claudia Saad Magalhães, Erbil Unsal, Sheila Oliveira, Claudia Bracaglia, Arvind Bagga, Valda Stanevicha, Silvia Magni Manzoni, Polyxeni Pratsidou, Loredana Lepore, Graciela Espada, Isabelle Kone Paut, Francesco Zulian, Patrizia Barone, Zelal Bircan, Maria del Rocio Maldonado, Ricardo Russo, Iris Vilca, Kjell Tullus, Rolando Cimaz, Gerd Horneff, Jordi Anton, Stella Garay, Susan Nielsen, Giancarlo Barbano, Alberto Martini, for the Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO)

 

EULAR/PRINTO/PRES criteria for Henoch-Schönlein purpura, childhood polyarteritis nodosa, childhood Wegener granulomatosis and childhood Takayasu arteritis: Ankara 2008. Part I: Overall methodology and clinical characterisation

 

Ann Rheum Dis 2010;69; 69: 790 - 797.

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Seza Ozen, Angela Pistorio, Silvia M Iusan, Aysin Bakkaloglu, Troels Herlin, Riva Brik, Antonella Buoncompagni, Calin Lazar, Ilmay Bilge, Yosef Uziel, Donato Rigante, Luca Cantarini, Maria Odete Hilario, Clovis A Silva, Mauricio Alegria, Ximena Norambuena, Alexandre Belot, Yackov Berkun, Amparo Ibanez Estrella, Alma Nunzia Olivieri, Maria Giannina Alpigiani, Ingrida Rumba, Flavio Sztajnbok, Lana Tambic-Bukovac, Luciana Breda, Sulaiman Al-Mayouf, Dimitrina Mihaylova, Vyacheslav Chasnyk, Claudia Sengler, Maria Klein-Gitelman, Djamal Djeddi, Laura Nuno, Chris Pruunsild, Jurgen Brunner, Anuela Kondi, Karaman Pagava, Silvia Pederzoli, Alberto Martini, Nicolino Ruperto, for the Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO)

 

EULAR/PRINTO/PRES criteria for Henoch-Schönlein purpura, childhood polyarteritis nodosa, childhood Wegener granulomatosis and childhood Takayasu arteritis: Ankara 2008. Part II: Final classification criteria

 

Ann Rheum Dis 2010;69; 69: 798 - 806.

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W Zhang, M Doherty, G Peat, S MA Bierma-Zeinstra, N K Arden, B Bresnihan, G Herrero-Beaumont, S Kirschner, B F Leeb, L S Lohmander, B Mazières, K Pavelka, L Punzi, A K So, T Tuncer, I Watt and J W Bijlsma

 

EULAR evidence based recommendations for the diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis

 

Ann Rheum Dis, Mar 2010; 69: 483 - 489

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R BM Landewé, KP Günther, C Lukas, J Braun, B Combe, P G Conaghan, K Dreinhöfer, D Fritschy, J Getty, H JL van der Heide, T K Kvien, K Machold, C Mihai, M Mosconi, R Nelissen, E Pascual, K Pavelka, M Pileckyte, W Puhl, L Punzi, W Rüther, M San-Julian, C Tudisco, R Westhovens, E Witso, and D MFM van der Heijde

 

EULAR/EFORT Recommendations for the diagnosis and initial management of patients with acute or recent onset swelling of the knee

 

Ann Rheum Dis, Jan 2009, doi:10.1136/ard.2008.104406

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W Zhang, M Doherty, B F Leeb, L Alekseeva, N K Arden, J W Bijlsma, F Dincer, K Dziedzic, H J Hauselmann, P Kaklamanis, M Kloppenburg, L S Lohmander, E Maheu, M Martín-Mola, K Pavelka, L Punzi, S Reiter, J Smolen, G Verbruggen, I Watt and I Zimmermann-Górska

 

EULAR evidence based recommendations for the diagnosis of hand osteoarthritis - report of a task force of the EULAR Standing Committee for International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutics (ESCISIT)  

 

Ann Rheum Dis, Jan 2009; 68: 8 - 17

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W Zhang, M Doherty, E Pascual, T Bardin, V Barskova, P Conaghan, J Gerster, J Jacobs, B Leeb, F Liotè, G McCarthy, P Netter, G Nuki, F Perez-Ruiz, A Pignone, J Pimentão, L Punzi, E Roddy, T Uhlig, and I Zimmermann-Gòrska


Eular evidence based recommendations for gout. Part I: Diagnosis. Report of a task force of the Standing Committee for International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutics (ESCISIT)


Ann Rheum Dis, Oct 2006; 65: 1301 - 1311.

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S Özen, N Ruperto, M J Dillon, A Bagga, K Barron, J C Davin, T Kawasaki, C Lindsley, R E Petty, A M Prieur, A Ravelli, and P Woo


EULAR/PReS endorsed consensus criteria for the classification of childhood vasculitides


Ann Rheum Dis, Jul 2006; 65: 936 - 941.

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B F Leeb, H A Bird, G Nesher, I Andel, W Hueber, D Logar, C M Montecucco, J Rovensky, J Sautner, and M Sonnenblick


EULAR response criteria for polymyalgia rheumatica: results of an initiative of the European Collaborating Polymyalgia Rheumatica Group (subcommittee of ESCISIT)


Ann Rheum Dis, Dec 2003; 62: 1189 - 1194.

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