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Rachael Gooberman-Hill, Vikki Wylde, Wendy Bertram, Andrew J Moore, Rafael Pinedo-Villanueva, Emily Sanderson, Jane Dennis, Shaun Harris, Andrew Judge, Sian Noble, Andrew D Beswick, Amanda Burston, Tim J Peters, Julie Bruce, Christopher Eccleston, Stewart Long, David Walsh, Nicholas Howells, Simon White, Andrew Price, Nigel Arden, Andrew Toms, Candida McCabe & Ashley W Blom.

Rachael Gooberman-Hill ^1,2,*, Vikki Wylde ^1,2, Wendy Bertram ³, Andrew J Moore ¹, Rafael Pinedo-Villanueva ⁴, Emily Sanderson ^5,6, Jane Dennis ¹, Shaun Harris ^5,6, Andrew Judge ¹, Sian Noble ^5,6, Andrew D Beswick ¹, Amanda Burston ¹, Tim J Peters ⁵, Julie Bruce ⁷, Christopher Eccleston ⁸, Stewart Long ⁹, David Walsh ¹⁰, Nicholas Howells ³, Simon White ¹¹, Andrew Price ⁴, Nigel Arden ⁴, Andrew Toms ¹², Candida McCabe ¹³, Ashley W Blom ^1,2

¹ Translational Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
² UK National Institute for Health and Care Research Bristol Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust and University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
³ Research and Innovation, North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK
⁴ Trauma and Orthopaedics, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, , UK
⁵ Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
⁶ Bristol Trials Centre, Bristol Randomised Trials Collaboration, University of Bristol, , UK
⁷ Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
⁸ Centre for Pain Research, Department for Health, University of Bath, Bath, UK
⁹ Versus Arthritis, Chesterfield, UK
¹⁰ Pain Centre, Versus Arthritis, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
¹¹ Cardiff and Vale Orthopaedic Centre, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Cardiff, UK
¹² Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Centre, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust, Exeter, UK
¹³ Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
^* Corresponding author Email: r.gooberman-hill@bristol.ac.uk

Declared competing interests of authors

Full disclosure of interests: Completed ICMJE forms for all authors, including all related interests, are available in the toolkit on the NIHR Journals Library report publication page at https://doi.org/10.3310/WATM4500.

Primary conflicts of interest: Rachael Gooberman-Hill reports grants from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research Council and Versus Arthritis during the conduct of this study. She is co-chair of the UK Committee on Research Integrity (2022 to present) and was a member of an NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research sub-panel (2014-19). Vikki Wylde, Wendy Bertram, Andrew J Moore, Rafael Pinedo-Villanueva, Sian Noble and Andrew D Beswick report grants from NIHR during the conduct of the study. Andrew Judge reports grants from NIHR, Health Data Research UK, the Royal College of Physicians, Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership and the charities Tommy’s and Versus Arthritis (Chesterfield, UK), during the conduct of the study. Andrew Judge is chair of the Data Monitoring Committee for the NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Dupuytren’s Interventions Surgery vs. Collagenase (DISC) trial, University of Leicester (2017 to present) and the Trial Steering Committee for the NIHR HTA The Gentle Years Yoga Trial Newcastle University (2019 to present). They declare memberships of the following: NIHR PGfAR programme sub-panel (2015–20); Versus Arthritis Health Subcommittee (2016–21); Nuffield Foundation Oliver Bird Fund Expert Panel (2019-); Steering Committee, Nuffield Foundation, Multilevel Integrated Data for musculoskeletal health intelligence and Actions (MIDAS), University of Keele (2020 to present); Data Monitoring Committee, Robotic Arthroplasty: a Clinical and cost effectiveness Randomised controlled trial (RACER), Warwick Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) (2020 to present). Tim J Peters reports grants from NIHR during the conduct of the study. They were a member of the NIHR CTU Standing Advisory Committee (2008–15). Julie Bruce reports grants from NIHR during the conduct of the study and travel expenses from professional organisations. Stewart Long reports grants from Versus Arthritis. David Walsh reports grants from AbbVie Inc. (North Chicago, IL, USA), Pfizer (New York, NY, USA), Lilly (Indianapolis, IN, USA), Galapagos (Mechelen, Belgium), Reckitt Benckiser Health Ltd (Slough, UK), Love Productions Ltd (London, UK) and GlaxoSmithKline (Brentford, UK) during the conduct of the study. He has received personal fees from the Irish Society for Rheumatology (Dublin, Ireland). Andrew Price reports grants from NIHR during the conduct of the study and personal fees from Zimmer Biomet (Warsaw, IN, USA). He is a BOA trustee and member of the Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) Funding committee (Seacole) (2020 to present). Nigel Arden reports grants from MERCK and personal fees from Pfizer, Lilly and Bristows LLP (London, UK) during the conduct of the study. Andrew Toms reports grants from NIHR, Versus Arthritis and Stryker (Kalamazoo, MI, USA) and consultancies with Corin (Cirencester, UK), Stryker, and Smith and Nephew (Watford, UK) during the conduct of the study. Ashley W Blom reports grants from NIHR and Stryker during the conduct of the study.