- 2002: Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) OMERACT is a global community for the development of Core Outcome Sets in the field of rheumatology. Patients participate as research partners in all phases of the research and are equal members in any OMERACT working group.
www.omeract.org invites patients to participate for the first time, alongside researchers and rheumatologists.
This led to the development of the CoPI Patient Research Partner (PRP) Patient Research Partner (PRP) is defined as a person with a relevant disease who participates or has participated as an active research team member on an equal basis with professional researchers, thus adding the value of experiential knowledge to a research project. established by the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR)EULAR is the organization that represents people with arthritis/rheumatism, health professionals (HPR), and scientific societies of rheumatology of all the European nations. The aims of EULAR are to reduce the burden of rheumatic diseases on the individual and society and to improve the treatment, prevention, and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal diseases. To this end, EULAR fosters excellence in education and research in the field of rheumatology. It promotes the translation of research advances into daily care and fights for the recognition of the needs of people with musculoskeletal diseases by the governing bodies in Europe. As such, they have always had their own educational program at the annual EULAR Congress meeting, but in the earlier years, the symposia they organized was mostly independent of the other congress sessions. eular.org in 2010. See Experience Working with Patients in Research Leads to Guidance for Best Practices, 2010. Read more about the initial history of patient involvement at OMERACT 
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CoPI: Patient Research Partner (PRP), conference participant
Tools: Report – Patient Researcher Engagement