The Journal of Rheumatology's Editor-in-Chief Earl Silverman talks about this month's selection of articles that are most relevant to the clinical rheumatologist.

This month’s selections include:

Pain and Self-reported Swollen Joints Are Main Drivers of Patient-reported Flares in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Results from a 12-month Observational Study by Dorota Kuettel, Jette Primdahl, Ulrich Weber, Lene Terslev, Mikkel Østergaard, Randi Petersen, Andreas Kristian Pedersen, Sören Möller and Kim Hørslev-Petersen https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.190760

Mortality among Patients with Giant Cell Arteritis: A Large-scale Population-based Cohort Study by Niv Ben-Shabat, Shmuel Tiosano, Ora Shovman, Doron Comaneshter, Yehuda Shoenfeld, Arnon D. Cohen and Howard Amital https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.190927

Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease in Lupus Nephritis: Is Dialysis Inevitable? By Konstantinos Tselios, Dafna D. Gladman, Jiandong Su and Murray B. Urowitz https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.191064

The Quality of Randomized Controlled Trials in High-impact Rheumatology Journals, 1998–2018 by Michael S. Putman, Ashley Harrison Ragle and Eric M. Ruderman https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.191306

Health-related Quality of Life in Patients with Hand Osteoarthritis from the General Population and the Outpatient Clinic by Marieke Loef, Wendy Damman, Renée de Mutsert, Frits R. Rosendaal and Margreet Kloppenburg https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.190781

To read the full articles visit www.jrheum.org

Music by David Hilowitz