Response to ‘Correspondence on ‘Mining social media data to investigate patient perceptions regarding DMARD pharmacotherapy for rheumatoid arthritis’’ by Reuter et al

Public Participation: Methods Matter; A Response to Boaz et al.

Combination DMARD therapy for rheumatoid arthritis.

approaches needs to be considered; triple therapy has been reported to be well tolerated at three to five years, while similar data are not available for methotrexate and cyclosporin A. The success of combination DMARD therapy in recent double blind controlled studies is encouraging.2223 As is frequently the case, however, the success of these approaches raises as many questions as it answers. ...

Correspondence in relation to critical appraisal by Chapman et al.

We write to raise some of a number of serious concerns about the recent paper ‘Single maintenance and reliever therapy (SMART) of asthma: a critical appraisal’. We believe that it is written in a misleading fashion and contains important errors of fact, presentation and inference. Tabulated data for symptoms, reliever use and exacerbations are presented only for patients randomly assigned to SM...

Correspondence to the image quiz by Kaymak et al.

We read the paper by Kaymak et al. published in the latest issue of your journal with great interest (1). In this paper, the authors have discussed the benefit of fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the differential diagnosis of fluid filled structures over the calvarium. In the first step of evaluation they used 2D transabdominal ultrasonography and detected a cystic mass over the poster...

Letter by Thoma et al regarding article, "A randomized trial of social media from Circulation".

BACKGROUND Medical journals use social media to distribute the findings of published articles. Whether social media exposure to original articles improves article impact metrics is uncertain. METHODS AND RESULTS Articles were randomized to receive targeted social media exposure from Circulation, including postings on the journal's Facebook and Twitter feeds. The primary end point was 30-day a...