Introduction

Affiliations

• ¹ Sydney Medical School, Institute of Bone and Joint Research, and Department of Rheumatology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, Australia.
• ² Department of Rheumatology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, and Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
• ³ OMERACT Patient Research Partner, Dragon Claw, Canberra, Australia.
• ⁴ Centre for Health Policy, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• ⁵ Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁶ Institute for Work and Health, and Institute for Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁷ Centre for Practice-Changing Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, and University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁸ Center for Medical Technology Policy (CMTP), World Trade Center Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
• ⁹ Secretariat, OMERACT, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; admin@omeract.org.
• ¹⁰ Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, and School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, and Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.