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2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Rheumatoid Arthritis Management Treatment Recommendations

  |  Issue: March 2015  |  

Next Steps

The guideline development group is continuing to finalize the points and treatments deemed most important to managing RA, with the aim of the final recommendations being published this summer. In the meantime, additional highlights of the draft guidelines can be found in the SessionSelect recording of this session.

Susan Bernstein is a freelance medical journalist based in Atlanta.

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