Abstract:We do not dispute the principle that increasing the likelihood of a response to a treatment is desirable whether one uses expensive or inexpensive therapy. The Canadian Rheumatology Association/Spondyloarthritis Research Consortium of Canada (CRA/SPARCC) guidelines replace the expert's opinion in the ASsessments in Ankylosing Spondylitis guidelines with an objective measure of inflammation, either an elevated acute-phase reactant or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This is quite reasonable. Our goal was to as… Show more
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