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Practice Guideline
. 2008 Mar 1;336(7642):502-3.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.39490.608009.AD.

Care and management of osteoarthritis in adults: summary of NICE guidance

Philip G Conaghan  1 , John Dickson, Robert L Grant; Guideline Development Group
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Practice Guideline

Care and management of osteoarthritis in adults: summary of NICE guidance

Philip G Conaghan et al. BMJ. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: All authors were members of the Guideline Development Group (PGC chaired the group, JD was the clinical adviser, RLG was the project manager). During the past two years PGC has received travel grants to educational meetings from MSD and honorariums for tutorials (MSD) and been an adviser to Novartis and Bristol Myers Squibb on imaging studies in rheumatoid arthritis. JD has received travel grants from Pfizer, Wyeth, Novartis, and Napp, and honorariums for tutorials from Pfizer and Novartis; he has been on advisory boards for pharmaceutical companies including GSK, Wyeth, and Novartis.

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Treatments for osteoarthritis in adults. Starting at the centre and working outwards, the treatments are arranged in the order in which they should be considered, taking into account individuals’ different needs, risk factors, and preferences. The core treatments (centre) should be considered first for every person with osteoarthritis. If further treatment is required, consider the drugs in the second circle before the drugs in the outer circle. The outer circle also shows adjunctive treatments (both non-pharmacological and surgical), which have less well proved efficacy, provide less symptom relief, or have increased risk to the patient compared with those in the second circle
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References

    1. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. Osteoarthritis: national clinical guideline for care and management in adults London: NICE, 2008. www.nice.org.uk/CG059

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