EULAR Recommendations: Lay versions
For EULAR, it is essential that the dissemination of the lay versions of the recommendations reach patient organisations, as well as healthcare professionals to support patients and carers in managing their disease. For recommendations that are relevant to patient audiences, EULAR provides a lay summary version, in English, and calls on all interested organisations to disseminate them and encourage the translation of these lay versions into their own language. Note that the lay summaries are created after the official recommendation is published.
Overview of lay versionsRecommendations listed below date back to 2008; scroll down the page to view the lay summaries. Each summary is listed by year of its publication. The structure of each summary lists the authors first, followed by the summary title, the EULAR Journal Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (ARD) reference, date of publication and finally a link to the recommendation as well as a link to the lay version.
2020Antonis Fanouriakis, Myrto Kostopoulou, Kim Cheema, Hans-Joachim Anders, Martin Aringer, Ingeborg Bajema, John Boletis, Eleni Frangou, Frederic A Houssiau, Jane Hollis, Adexandre Karras, Francesca Marchiori, Stephen D Marks, Gabriella Moroni, Marta Mosca, Ioannis Parodis, Manuel Praga, Matthias Schneider, Josef S Smolen, Vladimir Tesar, Maria Trachana, Ronald F van Vollenhoven, Alexandre E Voskuyl, Y K Onno Teng, Bernadette van Leew, George Bertsias, David Jayne, Dimitrios T Boumpas
Josef S Smolen, Robert B M Landewé, Johannes W J Bijlsma, Gerd R Burmester, Maxime Dougados, Andreas Kerschbaumer, Iain B McInnes, Alexandre Sepriano, Ronald F van Vollenhoven, Maarten de Wit, Daniel Aletaha, Martin Aringer, John Askling, Alejandro Balsa, Maarten Boers, Alfons A den Broeder, Maya H Buch, Frank Buttgereit, Roberto Caporali, Mario Humberto Cardiel, Diederik De Cock, Catalin Codreanu, Maurizio Cutolo, Christopher John Edwards, Yvonne van Eijk-Hustings, Paul Emery, Axel Finckh, Laure Gossec, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg, Merete Lund Hetland, Tom W J Huizinga, Marios Koloumas, Zhanguo Li, Xavier Mariette, Ulf Müller-Ladner, Eduardo F Mysler, Jose A P da Silva, Gyula Poór, Janet E Pope, Andrea Rubbert-Roth, Adeline Ruyssen-Witrand, Kenneth G Saag, Anja Strangfeld, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Marieke Voshaar, René Westhovens, Désirée van der Heijde
M. Kostine, A. Finckh, C.O. Bingham, K. Visser, J. Leipe, H. Schulze-Koops, E. Choy K. Benesova, T.R. Radstake, A.P. Cope, O. Lambotte, J.E. Gottenberg, Y. Allenbach, M. Visser, C. Rusthoven, L. Thomasen, C. Weill, S. Jamal, A. Marabelle, J. Larkin, J.B.A.G. Haanen, L.H. Calabrese, X. Mariette, T. Schaeverbeke
2019Victoria Furer, Christien Rondaan, Marloes W Heijstek, Nancy Agmon-Levin, Sander van Assen, Marc Bijl, Ferry C Breedveld, Raffaele D'Amelio, Maxime Dougados, Meliha Crnkic Kapetanovic, Jacob M van Laar, A de Thurah, Robert BM Landewé, Anna Molto, Ulf Müller-Ladner, Karen Schreiber, Leo Smolar, Jim Walker, Klaus Warnatz, Nico M Wulffraat, Ori Elkayam
Manuel Ramos-Casals, Pilar Brito-Zerón, Stefano Bombardieri, Hendrika Bootsma, Salvatore De Vita, Thomas Dörner, Benjamin A Fisher, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg, Gabriela Hernandez-Molina, Agnes Kocher, Belchin Kostov, Aike A. Kruize, Thomas Mandl, Wan-Fai Ng, Soledad Retamozo, Raphaèle Seror, Yehuda Shoenfeld, Antoni Sisó-Almirall, Athanasios G. Tzioufas, Claudio Vitali, Simon Bowman, Xavier Mariette
Victoria Furer, Christien Rondaan, Marloes W Heijstek, Nancy Agmon-Levin, Sander van Assen, Marc Bijl, Ferry C Breedveld, Raffaele D'Amelio, Maxime Dougados, Meliha Crnkic Kapetanovic, Jacob M van Laar, A de Thurah, Robert BM Landewé , Anna Molto, Ulf Muller-Ladner, Karen Schreiber, Leo Smolar, Jim Walker, Klaus Warnatz, Nico M Wulffraat, Ori Elkayam
Bianca Bech, Jette Primdahl, Astrid van Tubergen,Marieke Voshaar, Heidi A Zangi, Lurdes Barbosa, Carina Boström, Boryana Boteva, Francesco Carubbi, Françoise Fayet, Ricardo J O Ferreira, Kirsten Hoeper, Agnes Kocher, Marja Leena Kukkurainen, Vivienne Lion, Patricia Minnock, Antonella Moretti, Mwidimi Ndosi, Milena Pavic Nikolic, Michael Schirmer, Hana Smucrova, Jenny de la Torre-Aboki, Jennifer Waite-Jones, Yvonne van Eijk-Hustings
Maria G Tektonidou, Laura Andreoli, Marteen Limper, Zahir Amoura, Ricard Cervera, Nathalie Costedoat-Chalumeau, Maria Jose Cuadrado, Thomas Dörner, Raquel Ferrer-Oliveras, Karen Hambly, Munther A Khamashta, Judith King, Francesca Marchiori, Pier Luigi Meroni, Marta Mosca, Vittorio Pengo, Luigi Raio, Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza, Yehuda Shoenfeld, Lyudmila Stojanovich, Elisabet Svenungsson, Denis Wahl, Angela Tincani, Michael M Ward
2018EULAR recommendations for physical activity in people with inflammatory arthritis and osteoarthritis
2017Désirée van der Heijde, Sofia Ramiro, Robert Landewé, Xenofon Baraliakos, Filip Van den Bosch, Alexandre Sepriano, Andrea Regel, Adrian Ciurea, Hanne Dagfinrud, Maxime Dougados, Floris van Gaalen, Pál Géher, Irene van der Horst-Bruinsma, Robert D Inman, Merryn Jongkees, Uta Kiltz, Tore K Kvien, Pedro M Machado, Helena Marzo-Ortega, Anna Molto, Victoria Navarro-Compàn, Salih Ozgocmen, Fernando M Pimentel-Santos, John Reveille, Martin Rudwaleit, Jochen Sieper, Percival Sampaio-Barros, Dieter Wiek, Jürgen Braun
L Andreoli, G K Bertsias, N Agmon-Levin, S Brown, R Cervera, N Costedoat-Chalumeau, A Doria, R Fischer-Betz, F Forger, M F Moraes-Fontes, M Khamashta, J King, A Lojacono, F Marchiori, P L Meroni, M Mosca, M Motta, M Ostensen, C Pamfil, L Raio, M Schneider, E Svenungsson, M Tektonidou, S Yavuz, D Boumpas, A Tincani
Helen E Foster, Kirsten Minden, Daniel Clemente, Leticia Leon, Janet E McDonagh, Sylvia Kamphuis, Karin Berggren, Philomine van Pelt, Carine Wouters, Jennifer Waite-Jones, Rachel Tattersall, Ruth Wyllie, Simon R Stones, Alberto Martini, Tamas Constantin, Susanne Schalm, Berna Fidanci, Burak Erer, Erkan Dermikaya, Seza Ozen, Loreto Carmona
2016P Richette, M Doherty, E Pascual, V Barskova, F Becce, J Castañeda-Sanabria, M Coyfish, S Guillo, T L Jansen, H Janssens, F Lioté, C Mallen, G Nuki, F Perez-Ruiz, J Pimentao, L Punzi, T Pywell, A So, A K Tausche, T Uhlig, J Zavada, W Zhang, F Tubach, T Bardin
G J Macfarlane, C Kronisch, L E Dean, F Atzeni, W Häuser, E Fluß, E Choy, E Kosek, K Amris, J Branco, F Dincer, P Leino-Arjas, K Longley, G M McCarthy, S Makri, S Perrot, P Sarzi-Puttini, A Taylor, G T Jones
Seza Ozen, Erkan Demirkaya, Burak Erer, Avi Livneh, Eldad Ben-Chetrit, Gabriella Giancane, Huri Ozdogan, Illana Abu, Marco Gattorno, Philip N Hawkins, Sezin Yuce, Tilmann Kallinich, Yelda Bilginer, Daniel Kastner, Loreto Carmona EULAR recommendations for the management of familial Mediterranean fever Ann Rheum Dis doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-208690 Published Online First 10 March 2016 Read recommendation[*]
2015Heidi A Zangi, Mwidimi Ndosi, Jo Adams, Lena Andersen, Christina Bode, Carina Boström, Yvonne van Eijk-Hustings, Laure Gossec, Jana Korandová, Gabriel Mendes, Karin Niedermann, Jette Primdahl, Michaela Stoffer, Marieke Voshaar, Astrid van Tubergen EULAR recommendations for patient education for people with Ann Rheum Dis 2015;74:954-962 Published online first on March 3, 2015 as doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2014-206807 Read recommendation[*]
L Gossec, J S Smolen, S Ramiro, M de Wit, M Cutolo, M Dougados, P Emery, R Landewé, S Oliver, D Aletaha, N Betteridge, J Braun, G Burmester, J D Cañete, N Damjanov, O FitzGerald, E Haglund, P Helliwell, T K Kvien, R Lories, T Luger, M Maccarone, H Marzo-Ortega, D McGonagle, I B McInnes, I Olivieri, K Pavelka, G Schett, J Sieper, F van den Bosch, D J Veale, J Wollenhaupt, A Zink, D van der Heijde European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for the management of psoriatic arthritis with pharmacological therapies: 2015 update Ann Rheum Dis doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-208337 Read recommendation [*]
Christian Dejaco, Yogesh P Singh, Pablo Perel, Andrew Hutchings, Dario Camellino, Sarah Mackie, Andy Abril, Artur Bachta, Peter Balint, Kevin Barraclough, Lina Bianconi, Frank Buttgereit, Steven Carsons, Daniel Ching, Maria Cid, Marco Cimmino, Andreas Diamantopoulos, William Docken, Christina Duftner, Billy Fashanu, Kate Gilbert, Pamela Hildreth, Jane Hollywood, David Jayne, Manuella Lima, Ajesh Maharaj, Christian Mallen, Victor Martinez-Taboada, Mehrdad Maz, Steven Merry, Jean Miller, Shunsuke Mori, Lorna Neill, Elisabeth Nordborg, Jennifer Nott, Hannah Padbury, Colin Pease, Carlo Salvarani, Michael Schirmer, Wolfgang Schmidt, Robert Spiera, David Tronnier, Alexandre Wagner, Madeline Whitlock, Eric L Matteson, Bhaskar Dasgupta Ann Rheum Dis 2015;74:1799-1807 doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-207492 Read recommendation[*]
2014P Mandl, V Navarro-Compán, L Terslev, P Aegerter, D van der Heijde, M A D'Agostino, X Baraliakos, S J Pedersen, A G Jurik, E Naredo, C Schueller-Weidekamm, U Weber, M C Wick, P A C Bakker, E Filippucci, P G Conaghan, M Rudwaleit, G Schett, J Sieper, S Tarp, H Marzo-Ortega, M Østergaard Ann Rheum Dis 2015;74:1327-1339 doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2014-206971 Read recommendation[*]
2013Josef S Smolen, Robert Landewé, Ferdinand C Breedveld, Maya Buch, Gerd Burmester, Maxime Dougados, Paul Emery, Cécile Gaujoux-Viala, Laure Gossec, Jackie Nam, Sofia Ramiro, Kevin Winthrop, Maarten de Wit, Daniel Aletaha, Neil Betteridge, Johannes W J Bijlsma, Maarten Boers, Frank Buttgereit, Bernard Combe, Maurizio Cutolo, Nemanja Damjanov, Johanna M W Hazes, Marios Kouloumas, Tore K Kvien, Xavier Mariette, Karel Pavelka, Piet L C M van Riel, Andrea Rubbert-Roth, Marieke Scholte-Voshaar, David L Scott, Tuulikki Sokka-Isler, John B Wong, Désirée van der Heijde EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis with synthetic and biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: 2013 update Ann Rheum Dis doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-204573 Read recommendation[*]
N Duru, M C van der Goes, J W G Jacobs, T Andrews, M Boers, F Buttgereit, N Caeyers, M Cutolo, S Halliday, J A P Da Silva, J R Kirwan, D Ray, J Rovensky, G Severijns, R Westhovens, J W J Bijlsma Ann Rheum Dis published 19 July 2013, 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-203249 Read recommendation[*]
2011Y van Eijk-Hustings, A van Tubergen, C Boström, E Braychenko, B Buss, J Felix, J Firth, A Hammond, B Harston, C Hernandez, M Huzjak, J Korandová, M L Kukkurainen, R Landewé, M Mezieres, M Milincovic, A Moretti, S Oliver, J Primdahl, M Scholte-Voshaar, J de la Torre-Aboki, J Waite-Jones, R Westhovens, H Andersen Zangi, T Heiberg, J Hill Ann Rheum Dis doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2011-200185 Published Online First 28 October 2011 Read recommendation [*]
2010S van Assen, N Agmon-Levin, O Elkayam, R Cervera, M F Doran, M Dougados, P Emery, P Geborek, J P A Ioannidis, D R W Jayne, C G M Kallenberg, U Müller-Ladner, Y Shoenfeld, L Stojanovich, G Valesini, N M Wulffraat, M Bijl Ann Rheum Dis 2011;70:414-422 doi:10.1136/ard.2010.137216 Published Online First: 3 December 2010 Read recommendation[*]
2008G K Bertsias, J P A Ioannidis, J Boletis, S Bombardieri, R Cervera, C Dostal, J Font, I M Gilboe, F Houssiau, T Huizinga, D Isenberg, C GM Kallenberg, M Khamashta, J C Piette, M Schneider, J Smolen, G Sturfelt, A Tincani, R van Vollenhoven, C Gordon and D T Boumpas Ann Rheum Dis, Feb 2008; 67: 195-205. Read recommendation [*]
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ARD lay summaries
The Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (ARD) now also provides short research summaries[*] for patients and non-clinicians to accompany selected key research papers published in the journal. These aim to clearly explain the results of the research studies as well as any implications for treatment of the specific condition. The summaries are written in plain language in a consistently structured format and checked for accuracy and readability by expert rheumatologists and people from EULAR’s patient research partner network.