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Practice Guideline
. 2009 Mar 16:338:b702.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.b702.

Management of rheumatoid arthritis: summary of NICE guidance

Chris Deighton  1 , Rachel O'Mahony, Jonathan Tosh, Claire Turner, Michael Rudolf; Guideline Development Group
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Practice Guideline

Management of rheumatoid arthritis: summary of NICE guidance

Chris Deighton et al. BMJ. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: All authors were members of the Guideline Development Group for the NICE guideline (CD the clinical lead, RO’M the lead systematic reviewer, JT the lead health economist, CT the project manager, and MR the chair). CD’s department has received grants from Wyeth and Schering-Plough to support research projects, a research nurse, and an audit clerk and from Abbott to purchase an ultrasound machine and training in its use. ROM, CT and JT had no competing interests.

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