Authors
WMRNGea Zhang, RW Moskowitz, George Nuki, S Abramson, RD Altman, N Arden, S Bierma-Zeinstra, KD Brandt, P Croft, M Doherty, M Dougados, M Hochberg, DJ Hunter, K Kwoh, LS Lohmander, P Tugwell
Publication date
2008/2/1
Source
Osteoarthritis and cartilage
Volume
16
Issue
2
Pages
137-162
Publisher
WB Saunders
Description
PURPOSE
To develop concise, patient-focussed, up to date, evidence-based, expert consensus recommendations for the management of hip and knee osteoarthritis (OA), which are adaptable and designed to assist physicians and allied health care professionals in general and specialist practise throughout the world.
METHODS
Sixteen experts from four medical disciplines (primary care, rheumatology, orthopaedics and evidence-based medicine), two continents and six countries (USA, UK, France, Netherlands, Sweden and Canada) formed the guidelines development team. A systematic review of existing guidelines for the management of hip and knee OA published between 1945 and January 2006 was undertaken using the validated appraisal of guidelines research and evaluation (AGREE) instrument. A core set of management modalities was generated based on the agreement between guidelines …
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