title: Response to Letter to the Editor entitled "Comments on 'OARSI guidelines for the non-surgical management of knee osteoarthritis'".
authors.affiliation: Division of Rheumatology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: tmcalindon@tuftsmedicalcenter.org.
authors.forename: Timothy E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: McAlindon
authors.affiliation: Division of Rheumatology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Raveendhara R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Bannuru
authors.affiliation: Division of Rheumatology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Matthew C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Sullivan
authors.affiliation: NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, University of Oxford, UK. Electronic address: nigel.arden@ndorms.ox.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Nigel K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Arden
authors.affiliation: Pierre and Marie Curie University Paris 06, and AP-HP, Saint-Antoine Hospital, Paris, France. Electronic address: francis.berenbaum@sat.aphp.fr.
authors.forename: Francis
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Berenbaum
authors.affiliation: Department of General Practice, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: s.bierma-zeinstra@erasmusmc.nl.
authors.forename: Sita M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Bierma-Zeinstra
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Women's College Hospital, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: gillian.hawker@wchospital.ca.
authors.forename: Gillian A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Hawker
authors.affiliation: Bone and Cartilage Research Unit, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; Dept of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Princess Paola Hospital, Marche-en-Famenne, Belgium. Electronic address: yhenrotin@ulg.ac.be.
authors.forename: Yves
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Henrotin
authors.affiliation: Rheumatology Department, Royal North Shore Hospital and Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. Electronic address: david.hunter@sydney.edu.au.
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Hunter
authors.affiliation: Sensory & Motor System Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: kawaguchi-ort@h.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kawaguchi
authors.affiliation: Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Arizona Arthritis Center of Excellence, USA. Electronic address: kwoh@arthritis.arizona.edu.
authors.forename: Kent
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kwoh
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. Electronic address: stefan.lohmander@med.lu.se.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lohmander
authors.affiliation: Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France. Electronic address: francois.rannou@cch.aphp.fr.
authors.forename: Francois
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rannou
authors.affiliation: Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. Electronic address: eroos@health.sdu.dk.
authors.forename: Ewa M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Roos
authors.affiliation: Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Coventry, UK. Electronic address: m.underwood@warwick.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Underwood
mesh_terms: D032921:Consensus; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D020370:Osteoarthritis, Knee / Q000628:therapy*; D018802:Patient-Centered Care