Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
Volume 40, Issue 1 , Pages 2-14.e1, August 2010

A Comparison of Patient Characteristics and Outcomes in Selected European and U.S. Rheumatoid Arthritis Registries1

  • Jeffrey R. Curtis, MD, MS, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Birmingham, AL
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Jeffrey R. Curtis, MD, MS, MPH, Co-Director, Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics of Musculoskeletal Diseases (CERTs), Director, Arthritis Clinical Intervention Program (ACIP), University of Alabama at Birmingham, 619 19th Street South, SRC 068, Birmingham, AL 35249
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  • Archana Jain, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Birmingham, AL
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  • Johan Askling, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine Solna, Clinical Epidemiology Unit and Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska Institutet at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • S. Louis Bridges Jr., MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Birmingham, AL
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  • Loreto Carmona, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Research Unit, Spanish Foundation of Rheumatology, Madrid, Spain
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  • William Dixon, MRCP, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K.
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  • Axel Finckh, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Division of Rheumatology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, For the Swiss Clinical Quality Management program (SCQM)
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  • Kimme Hyrich, MD, PhD, FRCPC

      Affiliations

    • Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K.
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  • Jeffrey D. Greenberg, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • NYU School of Medicine, NY
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  • Joel Kremer, MD

      Affiliations

    • Albany Medical College and The Center for Rheumatology, Albany, NY
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  • Joachim Listing, PhD

      Affiliations

    • German Rheumatism Research Center Berlin, a Leibniz Institute, Berlin, Germany
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  • Kaleb Michaud, PhD

      Affiliations

    • National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, KS
    • Charité University Medicine Berlin
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  • Ted Mikuls, MD, MSPH

      Affiliations

    • Omaha VA and Nebraska Arthritis Outcomes Research Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
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  • Nancy Shadick, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
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  • Daniel H. Solomon, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
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  • Michael E. Weinblatt, MD

      Affiliations

    • Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
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  • Fred Wolfe, MD

      Affiliations

    • National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, KS
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  • Angela Zink, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • German Rheumatism Research Center Berlin, a Leibniz Institute, Berlin, Germany
    • Charité University Medicine Berlin

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 The following authors have made disclosures: J.C.: research grants: Amgen, Novartis, UCB, Centocor; consulting: Roche, UCB, CORRONA, Amgen; J.A.: speakers honoraria <$2000 from Wyeth, BMS, Abbott, Centocor, Schering-Plough; A.F.: research grants: Roche, Wyeth; Consulting: Roche, Abbott, Essex, Wyeth; J.L., J.G.: Dr. Greenberg serves as Chief Scientific Officer for CORRONA and has served on Advisory Boards for BMS, Centocor, Genentech, Roche and UCB; A.Z.: research grants: Abbott, Amgen, BMS, Schering-Plough, Roche, UCB, Wyeth; T.M.: research grants: Abbott, Amgen, UCB, (VARA); consulting: UCB; N.S. research grants: Biogen Idec, Crescendo Biosciences, Amgen; M.W. research grants: Biogen Idec, Crescendo Bioscience; consulting: Biogen Idec, Crescendo Bioscience.

 All other authors have no conflicts or relevant disclosures.

 This work was supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Some of the investigators receive support from the National Institutes of Health (AR053351: J.R.C.; AR047782 and AG027066: D.H.S.).

PII: S0049-0172(10)00049-1

doi:10.1016/j.semarthrit.2010.03.003

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
Volume 40, Issue 1 , Pages 2-14.e1, August 2010

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