title: Report from the OMERACT Hand Osteoarthritis Special Interest Group: advances and future research priorities.
abstract: Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders, frequently affecting the hands. In the last decade there has been increased awareness concerning this disorder because of its clinical burden. Unfortunately, only limited treatments for symptom alleviation are available, and no effective treatment for disease modification exists. The lack of treatment is due not only to a lack of understanding of the disease process, but also to poor outcome measures to assess the condition. The OMERACT Hand OA Special Interest Group (SIG) has started to develop a core set of outcome measures for hand OA clinical trials, observational studies, and clinical record keeping. At OMERACT 11, results from a Delphi exercise were presented, and a preliminary set of core domains was discussed. The group attempted to adopt the new OMERACT Filter 2.0 in the process, and literature overviews of conventional radiographs, ultrasonography, and magnetic resonance imaging as outcome measures in hand OA were presented. Discussions that followed highlighted further suggestions for core domains, the heterogeneity of hand OA, and future research priorities.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Margreet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kloppenburg
authors.forename: Pernille
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bøyesen
authors.forename: Wilma
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Smeets
authors.forename: Ida K
authors.initials: IK
authors.lastname: Haugen
authors.forename: Ida
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Haugen
authors.forename: Rani
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Willemien
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Visser
authors.forename: Désirée M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: van der Heijde
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D003245:Consensus Statements as Topic; D003697:Delphi Technique; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006225:Hand; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D010003:Osteoarthritis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D018608:Ultrasonography, Doppler / Q000379:methods
keywords: HAND; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT