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Official Journal of the American College of Rheumatology

EDITORIAL

The Arthritis Foundation 1948-1998: 50 Years of Arthritis Care and Research

Leigh F. Callahan and Debra R. Lappin 309

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

The Economic Cost of Musculoskeletal Disorders in Canada

Peter C. Coyte, Carl V. Asche, Ruth Croxford, and Ben Chan 315

The Effects of Social Support and Education on Health Care Costs after Three Years

Terry A. Cronan, Meghan Hay, Erik Groessl, Silvia Bigatti, Ruth Gallagher, and Mitsuo Tomita 326

Modeling Physical Dependence in Arthritis: The Relative Contribution of Specific Disabilities and Environmental Factors

Elizabeth M. Badley, Linda M. Rothman, and P. Peter Wang 335

Predictors of Functional Disability in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Margo B. Holm, John C. Rogers, and C. Kent Kwoh 346

The Social Environment and Health in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Marital Quality Predicts Individual Variability in Pain Severity

Millard Waltz, Walter Kriegel, and Paul van't Pad Bosch 356

A Survey of United States Rheumatologists Concerning Effectiveness of Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs and Prednisone in the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Frederick Wolfe, Daniel A. Albert, and Theodore Pincus 375

Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of an Argentine Spanish Version of the Stanford Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire

Marta B. Moroldo, Carmen De Cunto, Osvaldo Hübscher, Diana Liberatore, Rosa Palermo, Ricardo Russo, and Edward H. Giannini  382

Substance Use Among Adolescents with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis

Alisa A. Nash, Maria T. Britto, Daniel J. Lovell, Murray H. Passo, and Susan L. Rosenthal  391

Differential Responses by Psychosocial Subgroups of Fibromyalgia Syndrome Patients to an Interdisciplinary Treatment

Dennis C. Turk, Akiko Okifuji, J. David Sinclair, and Terence W. Starz 397

A Comparison of Three Types of Neck Support in Fibromyalgia Patients

Nancy Ambrogio, Joanne Cuttiford, Sydney Lineker, and Linda Li 405

Use of Alternative Therapies by Patients with Rheumatic Disease in Guadalajara, Mexico: Prevalence, Beliefs, and Expectations

Cesar Ramos-Remus, Jorge I. Gamez-Nava, Laura Gonzalez-Lopez, Kenneth J. Skeith, Ana V. Perla-Navarro, Federico Galvan-Villegas, and Maria E. Suarez-Almazor 411

Psychological Factors in the Prediction of Lyme Disease Course

Sanford P. Solomon, Barbara S. Weinschel, Eileen Hilton, Simcha Pollack, and Elizabeth Grolnick 419

ANNOUNCEMENTS 427