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Spondyloarthritis in over 16s: diagnosis and management

NICE guideline
Reference number: NG65
Published: 28 February 2017
Last updated: 02 June 2017

History

Committee list updated

Committee member list & DOIs (PDF 328 KB)

Published:

28 February 2017

Stakeholder list updated

Stakeholder list (PDF 249 KB)

Published:

28 February 2017

Consultation comments published

Consultation comments and responses (PDF 1.29 MB)

Published:

28 February 2017

Equality and health inequalities assessment

Equality impact assessment Section 4 (PDF 140 KB)

Published:

25 January 2017

Draft guidance consultation

Draft guidance consultation
Draft guideline (PDF 1.98 MB)

Published:

13 September 2016
Short version of draft guideline (PDF 490 KB)

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13 September 2016
Comments form (MSWord 61 KB)

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13 September 2016
Equality impact assessment - Section 3 (PDF 76 KB)

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13 September 2016
Guideline appendix A - Committee & DOI (PDF 306 KB)

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13 September 2016
Guideline appendix B - Guideline scope (PDF 165 KB)

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13 September 2016
Guideline appendix C - Review protocol (PDF 640 KB)

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13 September 2016
Guideline appendix D - Search strategies (PDF 364 KB)

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13 September 2016
Guideline appendix E - Evidence tables (PDF 6.24 MB)

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13 September 2016
Guideline appendix F - Excluded studies (PDF 1.74 MB)

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13 September 2016
Guideline appendix G - GRADE tables and meta-analysis results (PDF 12.73 MB)

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13 September 2016
Guideline appendix H - Health Economics report (PDF 1.42 MB)

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13 September 2016
Guideline appendix I - Expert witness RQ18 (PDF 147 KB)

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13 September 2016
Guideline appendix J - TSU report on pain NMA (PDF 911 KB)

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13 September 2016

Pre-consultation documents released

Search strategies (MSWord 85 KB)

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03 August 2016
Review questions (MSWord 24 KB)

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03 August 2016
Economic plan (MSWord 34 KB)

Published:

03 August 2016

Committee meetings

Committee meeting
Minutes - Meeting 2 (PDF 222 KB)

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27 October 2014
Minutes - Meeting 1 (PDF 204 KB)

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15 September 2014
Minutes - Meeting 3 (PDF 126 KB)

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16 December 2014
Minutes - Meeting 4 (PDF 124 KB)

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10 February 2015
Minutes - Meeting 5 (PDF 245 KB)

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24 March 2015
Minutes - Meeting 6 (PDF 328 KB)

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15 June 2015
Minutes - Meeting 7 (PDF 238 KB)

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29 July 2015
Minutes - Meeting 8 (PDF 370 KB)

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07 September 2015
Minutes - Meeting 9 (PDF 243 KB)

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27 October 2015
Minutes - Meeting 10 (PDF 288 KB)

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24 November 2015
Minutes - Meeting 11 (PDF 211 KB)

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11 January 2016
Minutes - Meeting 12 (PDF 180 KB)

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02 March 2016
Minutes - Meeting 13 (PDF 261 KB)

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19 April 2016
Minutes Post-consultation meeting (PDF 379 KB)

Published:

29 November 2016

GDG membership

GDG membership (PDF 15 KB)

Published:

12 September 2014

Seronegative arthropathies: scope consultation

Seronegative arthropathies: scope consultation information
Scoping equality impact assessment (PDF 226 KB)

Published:

12 September 2014
Scope consultation comments table (PDF 271 KB)

Published:

12 September 2014
Final scope (PDF 204 KB)

Published:

12 September 2014
Seronegative arthropathies: draft scope (PDF 132 KB)

Published:

20 May 2014
Seronegative arthropathies: scoping workshop notes information
Seronegative arthropathies: scoping workshop notes (PDF 166 KB)

Published:

20 May 2014

Seronegative arthropathies: list of registered stakeholders

Seronegative arthropathies: list of registered stakeholders (PDF 23 KB)

Published:

05 June 2015