Arthritis Care & Research, an official journal of the American College of Rheumatology and the Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals, publishes research that promotes excellence in the clinical practice of rheumatology. Relevant to the care of individuals with rheumatic diseases, major topics are evidence-based practice studies, clinical problems, practice guidelines, educational, social, and public health issues, health economics, health care policy, and future trends in rheumatology practice.

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May 2025

Incidence of and Risk of Mortality After Hip Fractures in Rheumatoid Arthritis Relative to the General Population
C. Allyson Jones et al.

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Association between sleep disturbance and subsequent pain interference in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis

Burcu Aydemir PhD, Orit Schieir PhD, Marie-France Valois MSc, Lutfiyya N. Muhammad PhD, MPH, Jing Song MS, Dorothy Dunlop PhD, Rowland W. Chang MD, MPH, Susan J. Bartlett PhD, Louis Bessette MD, MSc, Gilles Boire MD, MSc, Glen Hazlewood MD, PhD, Carol Hitchon MD, MSc, Janet Pope MD, MPH, Carter Thorne MD, Diane Tin BScPhm, Vivian P. Bykerk MD, Yvonne C. Lee MD, MMSc, 
  •  12 May 2025
Original Article

Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder Symptoms in Adults with Systemic Sclerosis: A Nationwide Study in Spain

Luis G Alcala-Gonzalez, Helen Burton-Murray, Micaela Atkins, Alfredo Guillen-del-Castillo, Carolina Malagelada, Michael Hughes, Zsuzsanna H. McMahan, Carmen P Simeón-Aznar, 
  •  12 May 2025
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Prevalence of Pain and Factors Associated with Pain in Patients with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies

Didem Saygin MD, Anne-Marie Malfait MD, PhD, Ethan M. Ritz MS, Kristin Wipfler PhD, Kaleb Michaud PhD, Yvonne C. Lee MD, MMSc, 
  •  12 May 2025
Original Article

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is an Early Underrecognized Feature of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA): A Population-Based Study of CTS Occurrence Before and After RA Incidence

Roslin Jose George MBBS, MPH, Noah Frechette BA, Manuela Oviedo MD, Iqra Javed MBBS, Sara J. Achenbach MS, Ryan J. Lennon MS, Bradley Alex Kimbrough MD, RhMSUS, Elena K. Joerns MD, MPH, Vanessa L. Kronzer MD, MSCI, Anne Gingery PhD, John M. Davis MD, MS, RhMSUS, Cynthia S. Crowson PhD, Elena Myasoedova MD, PhD, 
  •  5 May 2025

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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is an Early Underrecognized Feature of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA): A Population-Based Study of CTS Occurrence Before and After RA Incidence Issue ,

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Validation of Lung Ultrasound Interpretation Criteria for Interstitial Lung Disease in Systemic Sclerosis and Inflammatory Myopathy

Robert M. Fairchild MD, PhD, RhMSUS, Diane A. Mar MD, RhMSUS, Mariani D. Deluna BS, Melody Chung MD, Srijana Davuluri MD, Yumeko Kawano MD, Henry Guo MD PhD, Matthew C. Baker MD MS, David Fiorentino MD PhD, Lorinda Chung MD, MS, 
  •  4 May 2025

The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to CrossRef.

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Measures of adult pain: Visual Analog Scale for Pain (VAS Pain), Numeric Rating Scale for Pain (NRS Pain), McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ), Short‐Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF‐MPQ), Chronic Pain Grade Scale (CPGS), Short Form‐36 Bodily Pain Scale (SF‐36 BPS), and Measure of Intermittent and Constant Osteoarthritis Pain (ICOAP)

Gillian A. Hawker, Samra Mian, Tetyana Kendzerska, Melissa French, 
  •  S240-S252
  •  7 November 2011
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2019 American College of Rheumatology/Arthritis Foundation Guideline for the Management of Osteoarthritis of the Hand, Hip, and Knee

Sharon L. Kolasinski, Tuhina Neogi, Marc C. Hochberg, Carol Oatis, Gordon Guyatt, Joel Block, Leigh Callahan, Cindy Copenhaver, Carole Dodge, David Felson, Kathleen Gellar, William F. Harvey, Gillian Hawker, Edward Herzig, C. Kent Kwoh, Amanda E. Nelson, Jonathan Samuels, Carla Scanzello, Daniel White, Barton Wise, Roy D. Altman, Dana DiRenzo, Joann Fontanarosa, Gina Giradi, Mariko Ishimori, Devyani Misra, Amit Aakash Shah, Anna K. Shmagel, Louise M. Thoma, Marat Turgunbaev, Amy S. Turner, James Reston, 
  •  149-162
  •  6 January 2020
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The American College of Rheumatology Preliminary Diagnostic Criteria for Fibromyalgia and Measurement of Symptom Severity

Frederick Wolfe, Daniel J. Clauw, Mary-Ann Fitzcharles, Don L. Goldenberg, Robert S. Katz, Philip Mease, Anthony S. Russell, I. Jon Russell, John B. Winfield, Muhammad B. Yunus, 
  •  600-610
  •  29 April 2010
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2020 American College of Rheumatology Guideline for the Management of Gout

John D. FitzGerald, Nicola Dalbeth, Ted Mikuls, Romina Brignardello-Petersen, Gordon Guyatt, Aryeh M. Abeles, Allan C. Gelber, Leslie R. Harrold, Dinesh Khanna, Charles King, Gerald Levy, Caryn Libbey, David Mount, Michael H. Pillinger, Ann Rosenthal, Jasvinder A. Singh, James Edward Sims, Benjamin J. Smith, Neil S. Wenger, Sangmee Sharon Bae, Abhijeet Danve, Puja P. Khanna, Seoyoung C. Kim, Aleksander Lenert, Samuel Poon, Anila Qasim, Shiv T. Sehra, Tarun Sudhir Kumar Sharma, Michael Toprover, Marat Turgunbaev, Linan Zeng, Mary Ann Zhang, Amy S. Turner, Tuhina Neogi, 
  •  744-760
  •  11 May 2020
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Measures of anxiety: State‐Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale‐Anxiety (HADS‐A)

Laura J. Julian, 
  •  S467-S472
  •  7 November 2011
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2022 American College of Rheumatology Guideline for Exercise, Rehabilitation, Diet, and Additional Integrative Interventions for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Bryant R. England, Benjamin J. Smith, Nancy A. Baker, Jennifer L. Barton, Carol A. Oatis, Gordon Guyatt, Allen Anandarajah, Kristine Carandang, Karmela Kim Chan, Deb Constien, Eileen Davidson, Carole V. Dodge, Anita Bemis-Dougherty, Sotiria Everett, Nadine Fisher, Liana Fraenkel, Susan M. Goodman, Janet Lewis, Victoria Menzies, Larry W. Moreland, Iris Navarro-Millan, Sarah Patterson, Lawrence “Rick” Phillips, Neha Shah, Namrata Singh, Daniel White, Rawan AlHeresh, Kamil E. Barbour, Thomas Bye, Dana Guglielmo, Rebecca Haberman, Tate Johnson, Anatole Kleiner, Chris Y. Lane, Linda C. Li, Hiral Master, Daniel Pinto, Janet L. Poole, Kimberly Steinbarger, Daniel Sztubinski, Louise Thoma, Vlad Tsaltskan, Marat Turgunbaev, Courtney Wells, Amy S. Turner, Jonathan R. Treadwell, 
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Systematic Review of Health-Related Quality of Life Impact in Juvenile Localized Scleroderma

Luis F. Sanchez-Espino, Nadia Luca, Elena Pope, Ronald M. Laxer, Andrea M. Knight, Cathryn Sibbald, 
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Clinical, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Gait Differences Among Obesity Classes in Adults With Knee Osteoarthritis

Stephen P. Messier, Malia E. Gill, Shannon L. Mihalko, Daniel P. Beavers, Kate Queen, Gary D. Miller, Elena Losina, Jeffrey N. Katz, Richard F. Loeser, Paul DeVita, David J. Hunter, Sara A. Quandt, Mary F. Lyles, David Hudson, Leigh F. Callahan, 
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Relationship of Fatigue, Pain Interference, and Physical Disability in Children Newly Diagnosed With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Naomi Choong, Michelle Batthish, Roberta A. Berard, Gaëlle Chédeville, Brian M. Feldman, Kristin M. Houghton, Adam M. Huber, Sarah James, Jean-Philippe Proulx-Gauthier, Dax G. Rumsey, Heinrike Schmeling, Karine Toupin-April, Jaime Guzman, for the CAPRI Registry Investigators, 
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Incident Use of Hydroxychloroquine for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Núria Mercadé-Besora, Yuchen Guo, Mike Du, Xintong Li, Juan Manuel Ramírez-Anguita, Alberto Moreno, António Valente, Felipe Villalobos, Iek Leng Cheng, Lucía A. Carrasco-Ribelles, Maaike M. H. van Swieten, Manon Merkelbach, Mary Magoya, Paolo Lasalvia, Pau Pericàs-Pulido, Paul Berg, Pauline Bosco-Lévy, Roberto Lillini, Rogerio Ribeiro, Trinamjot Kaur Bagga, Vittoria Ramella, Sara Khalid, Miguel Angel Mayer, Angela Leis, Annika M. Jödicke, Edward Burn, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Martí Català, Albert Prats-Uribe,