What's new in the management of osteoporosis and prevention of fragility fractures?

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Driving difficulties in patients with axial spondyloarthritis : Results from the Scotland Registry for Ankylosing Spondylitis

Acknowledgements The authors thank all of the clinicians and research nurses who facilitated recruitment and data collection, and the SIRAS steering committee in particular, especially Professor Roger Sturrock (chair) and Dr David Marshall (vice‐chair). The authors also thank the SIRAS coordinating centre study team, particularly Elizabeth Ferguson‐Jones, Giles O'Donovan, Nabi Moaven‐Hashemi, and Flora Joyce. Funding: AbbVie and Pfizer financially supported the Scotland Registry for Ankylosing Spondylitis (SIRAS). AbbVie and Pfizer had no role in the study design or in the collection, analysis, or interpretation of the data, the writing of the manuscript, or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Publication of this article was not contingent upon approval by AbbVie or by Pfizer. LM is funded through the Medical Research Council/Versus Arthritis Centre for Musculoskeletal Health and Work (Versus Arthritis Grant No. 20665).Peer reviewedPostprin

Shaping innovation and coordination of healthcare delivery across boundaries and borders : A comparative case study

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Real-world evidence of TNF inhibition in axial spondyloarthritis : can we generalise the results from clinical trials?

Funding This work was supported by the British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) who funded the BSRBR-AS. The BSR received funding for this from Pfizer, AbbVie and UCB. These companies receive advance copies of manuscripts for comments but have no input in to the topics for analysis in the register nor the work involved in undertaking analysis. Analysis of data was supported by the Versus Arthritis/Medical Research Council Centre for Musculoskeletal Health and Work (grant number 20665).Peer reviewedPostprin

Understanding recruitment and retention of doctors in rural Scotland : Stakeholder perspectives

Acknowledgements This research was funded through grant HIPS/19/37 from The Scottish Government’s Chief Scientist Office. This research would not have been possible without the time given by the key stakeholders to talk about recruitment and retention of doctors in Scotland. The authors would like to thank their advisory panel and PPI partners for their help and input throughout the research to date, as well as Dr Diane Skåtun & Dr Verity Watson in the wider research team. This paper benefitted from having parts presented or discussed at various invited presentations, seminars, workshops and conferences so the authors, particularly Andrew Maclaren, would like to thank the organisers of the Health Services Research Conference (held online in 2021), and ‘The North Strategic Planning Group’ in particular. Andrew Maclaren would like to thank Lily Maclaren for her support and keen eye in proofreading various versions of this work before submission.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Outcomes and treatment responses, including work productivity, among people with axial spondyloarthritis living in urban and rural areas : a mixed-methods study within a national register

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are grateful to the staff of the British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register in Axial Spondyloarthritis register who at the time of the study were Elizabeth Ferguson-Jones, Maureen Heddle, Nafeesa Nazlee and Barry Morris, and to the recruiting staff at the clinical centres, details of which are available at: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/research/epidemiology/spondyloarthritis.php#panel1011. FUNDING The BSRBR-AS is funded by the British Society of Rheumatology who have received funding for this, in part, from Pfizer, Abbvie and UCB. These companies receive advance copies of results but have no input in determining the topics for analysis or work involved in undertaking it. This work was conducted within the Versus Arthritis/Medical Research Council Centre for Musculoskeletal Work and Health (Grant No: 20665).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Sex-specific Outcomes of Acute Stroke in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus : A National Inpatient Sample Study

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Lessons from experiences of accessing healthcare during the pandemic for remobilising rheumatology services : a national mixed methods study

Acknowledgements We are grateful to our patient partner Inga Wood for help with designing the interview schedule and for commenting on the manuscript and Lynne Laidlaw for help with designing the questionnaire. The authors do not report any conflicts of interest. GJM conceived the idea for the study and all authors were involved in the detailed planning. LM, KS, and RH conducted the qualitative analysis with input from JP. MB and GJ undertook the questionnaire analysis. LM and RH integrated quantitative and qualitative findings, and KS, JP and GJM contributed to interpretation of findings. RH and LM drafted the manuscript and all authors contributed important intellectual content via written comments. Funding This work was supported by Versus Arthritis [Grant No: 20748] and the British Society for Rheumatology. The funding for the original studies included were from Versus Arthritis (MAmMOTH) and the British Society for Rheumatology (BSRBR-AS and BSR-PsA). LM is supported by the MRC/Versus Arthritis Centre for Musculoskeletal Health and Work [Grant No: 20665].Peer reviewedPublisher PD

The role of metrology in axSpA : does it provide unique information in assessing patients and predicting outcome? Results from the BSRBR-AS registry

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank the staff who contributed to running the BSRBR-AS register and we also thank the recruiting staff at the clinical centers, details of which are available at: www.abdn.ac.uk/bsrbr-as.Peer reviewedPostprin

Do current methods of measuring the impact of chronic pain on work reflect the experience of working-age adults? : An integrated mixed methods systematic narrative review

The authors would like to acknowledge contributions to the QUICK study by members of the study advisory group: Patrice Forget, Siladitya Bhattacharya, Peter Goadsby, Cathy Price, David Coggon, Maureen McAllister, Stephen Bevan. The work presented in this manuscript was funded by the Medical Research Council (grant MR/V020676/1).Peer reviewe