Standing Committee for Clinical Affairs

Specialty groups

Focus groups withing the sphere of musculoskeletal medicine may apply for EULAR endorsement and also support through the Standing Committee for Clinical Affairs.

• EUSTAR (EULAR Scleroderma Trials And Research) group
  The EULAR Scleroderma Trials and Research (EUSTAR) group was founded in June 2004 as an ESCCA taskforce. A core feature of EUSTAR was the Minnimal Essential Data Set (MEDS): specific aims were to establish a core data set on as many SSc patients as possible in order to encourage further in-depth multicenter studies.
  As of March 2010, over 8'500 patients are registered in MEDA from 90 centres in 5 continents.  
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• EUVAS (European Vasculitis Study Group)
  Aimed at encouraging multicentre clinical trials in vasculitis, this EU initiated multidisciplinary group is endorsed and part supported by EULAR.
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