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Official Journal of the American College of Rheumatology
EDITORIAL COMMENTARY
The Risk of Cardiovascular Thrombotic Events With Selective Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitors
Vibeke Strand and Marc C. Hochberg 349
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Gout
Effect of Urate-Lowering Therapy on the Velocity of Size Reduction of Tophi in Chronic Gout
Fernando Perez-Ruiz, Marcelo Calabozo, Jose I. Pijoan, Ana M. Herrero-Beites, and Ana Ruibal 356
Health Services
Short-Term Outcomes of Acute Knee Injuries: Does the Provider Make a Difference?
Peter C. Amadio, Sherine E. Gabriel, Barbara P. Yawn, W. Scott Harmsen, Duane M. Ilstrup, and Jeannie Hill 361
Racial Differences in Social Network Experience and Perceptions of Benefit of Arthritis Treatments Among New York City Medicare Beneficiaries With Self-Reported Hip and Knee Pain
Valerie A. Blake, John P. Allegrante, Laura Robbins, Carol A. Mancuso, Margaret G. E. Peterson, John M. Esdaile, Stephen A. Paget, and Mary E. Charlson 366
Low Back Pain
Acute Low Back Pain Self-Management Intervention for Urban Primary Care Patients: Rationale, Design, and Predictors of Participation
Teresa M. Damush, Morris Weinberger, Daniel O. Clark, William M. Tierney, Jaya K. Rao, Susan M. Perkins, and Kelly Verel 372
Osteoarthritis
Effects of Video Information on Preoperative Anxiety Level and Tolerability of Joint Lavage in Knee Osteoarthritis
Xavier Ayral, Claudine Gicquere, Annie Duhalde, Denis Boucheny, and Maxime Dougados 380
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Long-Term Outcome in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Simple Algorithm of Baseline Parameters Can Predict Radiographic Damage, Disability, and Disease Course at 12-Year Followup
K. W. Drossaers-Bakker, A. H. Zwinderman, T. P. M. Vliet Vlieland, D. van Zeben, K. Vos, F. C. Breedveld, and J. M. W. Hazes 383
Preferences for Improved Health Examined in 1,024 Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis: Pain Has Highest Priority
Turid Heiberg and Tore K. Kvien 391
Development and Evaluation of a Single Value Score to Assess Global Range of Motion in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Heather Epps, Mike Hurley, and Martin Utley 398
Relationship Among the HLA-DRB1 Shared Epitope, Smoking, and Rheumatoid Factor Production in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Derek L. Mattey, Peter T. Dawes, Sheila Clarke, June Fisher, Ann Brownfield, Wendy Thomson, Ali H. Hajeer, and William E. R. Ollier 403
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Three Ethnic Groups. XI. Sources of Discrepancy in Perception of Disease Activity: A Comparison of Physician and Patient Visual Analog Scale Scores
Graciela S. Alarcon, Gerald McGwin, Jr, Kemi Brooks, Jeffrey M. Roseman, Barri J. Fessler, Martha L. Sanchez, Holly M. Bastian, Alan W. Friedman, Bruce A. Baethge, and John D. Reveille, For the LUMINA Study Group 408
Anti-β2-Glycoprotein I Antibodies in Pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Antiphospholipid Syndrome
Emily von Scheven, David V. Glidden, and Melissa E. Elder 414
Patient Preferences for Treatment of Lupus Nephritis
Liana Fraenkel, Sidney Bogardus, and John Concato 421
SPECIAL ARTICLES
Guidelines for Immunologic Laboratory Testing in the Rheumatic Diseases: An Introduction
American College of Rheumatology Ad Hoc Committee on Immunologic Testing Guidelines 429
Evidence-Based Guidelines for the Use of Immunologic Tests: Antinuclear Antibody Testing
Daniel H. Solomon, Arthur J. Kavanaugh, Peter H. Schur, and the American College of Rheumatology Ad Hoc Committee on Immunologic Testing Guidelines 434
TRAINEE ROUNDS
Accelerated Nodulosis and Vasculitis Following Etanercept Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Gaye Cunnane, Martha Warnock, Kenneth H. Fye, and David I. Daikh 445
REVIEW
What Do We Know About Lupus Membranous Nephropathy? An Analytic Review
Sharon L. Kolasinski, James B. Chung, and Daniel A. Albert 450
LETTERS
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use and Fibromyalgia
Alan C. Logan 456
Sociocultural Issues in Clinical Research: Unraveling the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Robert M. White 457
ANNOUNCEMENTS 18A
Cover image: These are award-winning images from the 2001 American College of Rheumatology slide contest. This composite slide demonstrates the vasculitic rash of Henoch-Schonlein purpura in a 32-year-old man. The rash is typically an erythematous palpable purpuric eruption on the lower extremities. The skin biopsy shows intense immunofluorescent IgA deposition in cutaneous vessel walls.
Submitted by Tawatchai Paisansinsup, MD
Rochester, Minnesota
