thank the ACR staff, including Ms Regina Parker for assistance in organizing the face-to-face meeting and coordinating the administrative aspects of the project, and Ms Robin Lane for assistance in manuscript preparation. We thank Ms Janet Waters for help in developing the literature search strategy and performing the literature search and updates, and Ms Janet Joyce for reviewing the literature search strategy. AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS All authors were involved in drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, and all authors approved the final version to be published. Dr. S. Goodman had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Study conception and design. S. Goodman, Springer, Guyatt, Abdel, Dasa, George, Gewurz-Singer, Giles, Johnson, Mandl, Mont, Sculco, Sporer, Kirou, Michaud, Russell, Sah, Miller, Singh,Yates. Acquisition of data. S. 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