About the Safety Working Group
Harms provide important context for healthcare practitioners about the benefit-risk ratio of interventions. To improve transparency and credibility in the published results from randomized trials, the reporting of harms associated with an intervention needs to be explicit regarding what is patient-important, which may be different from that reported by clinicians submitting adverse event reports
Following the concerns about inadequate reporting of harm outcomes in randomized trials and systematic reviews the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) Safety Working Group is advancing the work to identify additional harm aspects for assessment in rheumatology trials

Peter Brooks
Co-Chair

Robin Christensen
Co-Chair

Caroline Flurey
Co-Chair

Lee Simon
Co-Chair
How patients can help the Safety Working Group to improve reporting of side effects from rheumatological medications.
If you want to know more, please contact: [email protected]
Working Group Publications
Harms reported by patients in rheumatology drug trials: a systematic review of randomized trials in the cochrane library from an OMERACT working group
Improving benefit-harm assessment of therapies from the patient perspectives: OMERACT pre-meeting towards consensus on core sets for randomized controlled trials
Patient Perspectives on DMARD Safety Concerns in Rheumatology Trials: Results from Inflammatory Arthritis Patient Focus Groups and OMERACT Attendee Discussions
Identifying Possible Outcome Domains from Existing Outcome Measures to Inform an OMERACT Core Domain Set for Safety in Rheumatology Trials
Working Group Members:
Maarten Boers
Peter Brooks
Robin Christensen
Daniel Devoe
Daniel Furst
Niti Goel
Susan Goodman
Glen Hazelwood
Orit Schieir
Vivian Bykerk
Bev Shea
Lyn March
Karina Torralba
Charlotte Bekker
Catherine Hill
Amye Leong
Sarah Mackie
Pam Richards
Marieke Scholte-Voshaar
Lee Simon
Dorthe Berthelsen
Caroline Flurey
Dorcas Beaton
Lara Maxwell
Salome Kristensen
Tanja Schjødt Jørgensen
Vibeke Strand
Maria Suarez-Almazor
Peter Tugwell
Paula Williamson
Thasia Woodworth
Jasvinder Singh
Elisabeth Ginnerup Læbo
Susan Bartlett
Sabrina M Nielsen
Marianne U. Rasmussen
Torkell Ellingsen
Samar Tharwat Radwan