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Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a heterogeneous inflammatory arthritis with a varied clinical phenotype. There has been considerable international collaboration over recent years to develop and prioritise appropriate disease domains and outcome measures to capture all aspects of this complex disease. It has been recognised that patient-reported measures and physician assessments are complementary and, when used together, allow an improved reflection of disease burden. Taking this concept one step further, the experience in rheumatoid arthritis has demonstrated benefits of incorporating the patient perspective in the development of outcome measures. We report a systematic review demonstrating (1) that there has been little incorporation of the patient perspective in the development of outcome measures and domains in PsA, (2) the proceedings from the preliminary patient involvement in outcome measures for PsA (PIOMPSA) meetings, and (3) a proposed roadmap for improving patient involvement.
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Meetings were supported through unrestricted educational grants from Pfizer and Abbvie Laboratories.
Laure Gossec received EULAR funding for the PsAID study.
Ade Adebajo, Mel Brooke, Willemina Campbell, Laura C. Coates, Oliver FitzGerald, Philip Helliwell, Sarah Hewlett, Jana James, Patricia Minnock, Aisling Reast, William Tillett, Dennis O’Sullivan, Maarten de Wit, and Neil McHugh declare that they have no conflict of interest.
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Tillett, W., Adebajo, A., Brooke, M. et al. Patient Involvement in Outcome Measures for Psoriatic Arthritis. Curr Rheumatol Rep 16, 418 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11926-014-0418-7
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