Table 1.
Characteristics of patients attending Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) conferences
| Characteristics | 2002: Gold Coast, QLD, Australia | 2004: Asilomar, CA, USA | 2006: St. Julian’s Bay, Malta | 2008: Kanaskis, AB, Canada | 2010: Borneo, Malaysia | 2012: Pinehurst, NC, USA | 2014: Budapest, Hungary | 2016: Whistler, BC, Canada |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | ||||||||
| Female | 9 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 15 | 18 | 18 |
| Male | 2 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 4 |
| Previous attendance | ||||||||
| Yes | 0 | 6 | 15 | 8 | 14 | 10 | 16 | 14 |
| No | 11 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 8 |
| Condition | ||||||||
| Rheumatoid arthritis | 11 | 17 | 15 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 9 |
| Osteoarthritis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Psoriatic arthritis | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||
| Fibromyalgia | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Gout | 3 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Vasculitis | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Ankylosing spondylitis | 2 | |||||||
| Myositis | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Polymyalgia rheumatica | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Connective tissue diseases | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Behçet’s syndrome | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Chronic pain | 1 | |||||||
| Juvenile idiopathic arthritis | 1 | |||||||
| Country | ||||||||
| USA | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 7 |
| UK | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Australia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Norway | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Sweden | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Denmark | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Canada | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| Germany | 1 | |||||||
| New Zealand | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| France | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Malaysia | 3 | |||||||
| Turkey | 1 | |||||||
| Italy | 1 | |||||||
| Proportion of all attending the conference (%) | 7.9 | 7.0 | 7.4 | 9.0 | 18.1 | 10.2 | 9.5 | 10.0 |