Reference sources

The aim of Arthritis Care’s publications is to give practical information to help people to manage the effects of arthritis on their life. Therefore, we draw on the personal experiences of people with arthritis as well the expert opinion of health professionals and evidence-based medical research in writing a publication.

To guarantee the accuracy and credibility of our information, we use rigorous criteria to select the information sources used to research and write our publications. All information gathered from external sources is cross-referenced with established medical textbooks or government guidelines or one of Arthritis Care’s medical advisors from the medical advisory group.

Obtaining reference materials

We can give information on how to locate our reference sources, and in some cases we can supply copies of the relevant documents. Please contact library@arthritiscare.org.uk

• NHS Choices
• Arthritis Research UK
• Arthritis Foundation
• Mayo Clinic
• NICE guidance on OA and RA
• Understanding Arthritis - Arthritis Care booklet
  

• Mayo Clinic - Adult Still's disease
• www.orpha.net - Adult onset Still's disease
• www.thedoctorwillseeyounow.com - Adult onset Still's disease
• www.stillsdisease.org - Information about Still's disease
• GP Notebook
• Bulletin on the Rheumatic Diseases Vol. 49 No 6
• Arthritis Care's medical advisory board

• www.patient.co.uk/health/Ankylosing-Spondylitis.htm
• Arthritis Research UK – www.arthritisresearchuk.org/arthritis_information/arthritis_types__symptoms/ankylosing_spondylitis.aspx
• National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society – www.nass.co.uk
• Methotrexate for ankylosing spondylitis – Cochrane review
• Physiotherapy interventions for ankylosing spondylitis – Cochrane review
• Sulfasalazine for ankylosing spondylitis - review article
• NHS Choices article
• National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) – Q&A
• National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) – fast facts
• NICE guidance on golimumab
• Mayo Clinic (US) article

• www.patient.co.uk/health/Baker's-Cyst.htm
• www.cks.nhs.uk/patient_information_leaflet/bakers_cyst
• US National Library of Medicine article
• NHS Choices article
• Mayo Clinic (US) article

• Claiming benefits - Age UK
• More money in your pocket - Age UK
  
• Beginners guide to benefits – Directgov
• Guide to financial support for disabled people - Directgov
  
• Benefits for people who are sick or disabled – Citizens Advice
• Benefits checklist – Disability Alliance
• Disability Alliance factsheets

• Article: B Cells as therapeutic targets for rheumatic diseases. Author: R. John Looney, Jennifer Anolik & Inaki Sanz. Journal: The Lancet, 2007
• NHS Choices: http://nhs.medguides.medicines.org.uk/nhs/medicine.aspx?name=MabThera&use=Rheumatoid%20arthritis
• Electronic Medicines Consortium: www.emc.medicines.org.uk
• Arthritis Research UK drug booklets
• BSR principles for biologic prescribing
• Cochrane review: adverse effects of biologics: a network meta-analysis and Cochrane overview
• NICE guidance – www.nice.org.uk
• Cochrane review on abatacept – http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD007277/sect0.html
• Medline Plus on rituximab – www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a607038.html
• SMC guidance – www.scottishmedicines.org.uk
• Arthritis Care’s medical advisory board

• Arthritis Care: About Arthritis
• Arthritis Research UK
• Arthritis Foundation - JIA, Kid Power, Dealing with emotional issues
  
• Best Health (BMJ)
  
• Direct Gov and NI Direct
• Dream Team
• The Mayo Clinic
  
• NHS
• Office of National Statistics
• Youth Health Talk
• Medical information on alcohol, sexual health and vaccines from Dr David Doyle, consultant rheumatologist and (former) chair of the Arthritis Care medical advisory board
  

• NHS Choices - NHS support services: www.nhs.uk
• Arthritis Care Helplines Team
• Arthritis Care discussion forum

• The British Pain Society: Booklet: ‘Understanding and Managing Pain’
• www.britishpainsociety.org
• Book: The Arthritis helpbook: a tested self-management program for coping with arthritis and fibromyalgia, Authors: Kate Lorig & James Fries. Publisher: Perseus Books, 2006
• Book: The pain relief handbook – self-help methods for managing pain, Author: Chris Wells & Graham Nown. Publisher: Vermillion, 1996
• Book: Coping successfully with pain, Author: Neville Shone. Publisher: Sheldon Press, 2002
• Booklets: Arthritis Research UK. ‘Back Pain’ and ‘Pain in the Neck’ 
• NHS Choices
• Arthritis Foundation: five steps to pain relief
• Experts including a member of Arthritis Care’s medical advisory board

• Arthritis Research UK booklets: When your child has arthritis, Arthritis: A guide for teenagers, Tim has arthritis and Da Kimzta has a joint injection
• Arthritis Care book: Kids with Arthritis – a guide for families. Carrie Britton, 2006 Publisher: Choices. Available from Arthritis Care
• NHS Choices – arthritis in children
• Mayo Clinic – Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
• BBC Health – Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
• ARMA Standards of Care for Children and Young People with JIA 
• Experts, including a member of Arthritis Care’s medical advisory board

• NHS medicines: http://nhs.medguides.medicines.org.uk/NHS/condition.aspx?condition=Arthritis
• Guidelines: NICE (National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence) www.nice.org.uk ‘Rheumatoid Arthritis: National clinical guideline for management and treatment in adults’ and ‘Osteoarthritis: Arthritis: National clinical guideline for management and treatment in adults’
• British National Formulary: www.bnf.org.uk 
• Guidelines: British Society for Rheumatology: www.rheumatology.org.uk
• Guidelines: Scottish Medicines Consortium: www.scottishmedicines.org.uk
• Booklet: Arthritis Research UK. ‘Complementary and alternative medicines for arthritis’
• Report: Arthritis Research UK. ‘Complementary and Alternative Medicines for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis, Osteoarthritis and Fibromyalgia’
• National Library for Health: Complementary and Alternative Medicine Specialist Library: www.evidence.nhs.uk/
• NHS Direct: www.nhs.uk/conditions/arthritis/pages/complementarytherapy.aspx
• Arthritis Today: Drug guide
• Arthritis Research UK
• Experts, including a member of Arthritis Care’s medical advisory board
  
  

   

• www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Arthritis/Pages/Exercise.aspx
• www.mayoclinic.com/health/arthritis/AR00009
• Guidelines: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence www.nice.org.uk ‘Rheumatoid Arthritis: National clinical guideline for management and treatment in adults’ and ‘Osteoarthritis: Arthritis: National clinical guideline for management and treatment in adults’
• Arthritis Today: fitness
• At least five a week - report from the chief medical officer
• Experts, including a member of Arthritis Care’s medical advisory board

• Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 2007
• Arthritis Research UK - psychological trauma, drugs, exercise, physical activity, nordic walking, diagnostic criteria, emotions, yoga and tai chi, psychological therapies,
  
• Arthritis Today - being overweight, everyday activities, Tai Chi
• BMJ 2002
• BUPA
  
• Fibromyalgia Association UK
• Mayo Clinic
• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - acupuncture, hydrotherapy, gabapentin and pregabalin, amitriptyline , level of care, psychological treatments 
• National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases - fast facts and fibromyalgia
• Patient UK 

• British Society for Rheumatology and British Health Professionals in Rheumatology guideline for the management of gout, 2007: www.rheumatology.org.uk
• Arthritis Research UK – www.arc.org.uk/arthinfo/patpubs/6015/6015.asp
• NHS Clinical Knowledge Summary – www.cks.nhs.uk/patient_information_leaflet/Gout
• NHS Clinical Knowledge Summary – www.cks.nhs.uk/gout/management/quick_answers/scenario_acute_gout/clinical_summary_acute_gout/lifestyle_advice
• UK Gout Society – www.ukgoutsociety.org
• Nature Genetics article, 2008: www.nature.com/ng/journal/v40/n4/abs/ng.106.html
  
• Mayo Clinic (US) article

• Factsheets: The British Dietetic Association. ‘Diet and Arthritis’ www.bdaweightwise.com
• Booklet: Arthritis Research UK. ‘Diet and Arthritis’
• Article: The Arthritis Foundation. ‘You are what you Eat’
• Journal article: ‘Dietary risk factors for rheumatic diseases’ Current Opinion in Rheumatology, March 2005 - Volume 17 - Issue 2 - pp 141-146
• Book: Diet and Arthritis: A comprehensive guide to controlling arthritis through diet. Authors: Gail Darlington and Linda Gamlin. Publisher: Ebury Press, 1998
• Book: ‘Alternative Treatments for Arthritis’ The Arthritis Foundation
• Food Standards Agency: www.eatwell.gov.uk
• Department of Health food advice: www.nhs.uk/LiveWell/5ADAY/Pages/5ADAYhome.aspx
• Northern Ireland educational site: www.food4life.org.uk
• Arthritis Research UK
• Arthritis Today
• Medline: St John's wort
• Cochrane review: Glucosamine therapy for treating osteoarthritis
• National Prescribing Centre
• Experts, including a member of Arthritis Care’s medical advisory board

• Arthritis Care's medical advisory board, and other experts
• Arthritis Foundation
  
• Cochrane Library: Thermotherapy for treating rheumatoid arthritis, Thermotherapy for treating osteoarthritis
• eHow
  
• Mayo Clinic
• Medicine Net
  
• Web MD
  

• Arthritis Care’s booklet: Independent living and Arthritis
• Previous Arthritis Care factsheet on hip surgery
• Arthritis Research UK booklet
• National Joint Registry: http://www.njrcentre.org.uk
• Primary Total Hip replacement: a guide to good practice, published by the British Orthopaedic Association, revised August 2006
• NICE Interventional Procedure Guidance 112 – Feb 05 and 152 – Jan 06
• NICE guidance on the use of metal on metal hip resurfacing arthroplasty, June 02
• NHS choices web page on hip replacement
• Get bone smart website
• The Wellington Hospital: Hip Unit
• Revision rates after primary hip and knee replacement in England between 2003-2004 by Sibanda, Copley, Lewsey, Borroff, Gregg, MacGregor, Pickford, Porter, Tucker, van der Meulen on behalf of the National Joint Registry for England and Wales
• NHS Evidence - Map of Medicine for Elective hip surgery

• Disability Living Foundation: www.dlf.org.uk 
•  Equal Opportunities and Human Rights Commission: www.equalityhumanrights.com
• www.Direct.gov.uk UK Government website covering benefits and disability
• www.assist-uk.org Assist UK is a UK network of independent living centres
• Members of the College of Occupational Therapists
• Arthritis Care’s medical advisory board

• Book: Rheumatology (Vols 1 & 2) John Klippel & Paul Dieppe, 1998
• Oxford Desk Reference: Rheumatology. Author: Richard Watts et al. Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009
• Book: British Medical Association: Guide to Medicines and Drugs. Author: Prof. John A Henry. Publisher: Dorling Kindersley, 1997 / 2001 / 2004 / 2006 / 2007
• NHS Library: Paper: ‘Efficacy of glucosamine sulphate, chondrotin and fish oils in the treatment of osteoarthritis’ 2007 www.library.nhs.uk
• NHS medicines: http://nhs.medguides.medicines.org.uk/NHS/condition.aspx?condition=Arthritis
• Guidelines: NICE (National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence) www.nice.org.uk ‘Osteoarthritis: Arthritis: National clinical guideline for management and treatment in adults’
• Guidelines: Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network. www.sign.ac.uk
• Guidelines: British Society for Rheumatology www.rheumatology.org.uk
• Report: ‘Complementary and Alternative Medicines for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis, Osteoarthritis and Fibromyalgia’ Arthritis Research Campaign
• Benefits and Disability: www.Direct.gov.uk
• Disability Living Foundation: www.dlf.org.uk
• National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases: Osteoarthritis
• NHS Choices
• Mayo Clinic
• Arthritis Research UK
• Cochrane review: Glucosamine therapy for treating osteoarthritis
• Cochrane review: Thermotherapy for treatment of osteoarthritis
• Cochrane review: Intensity of exercise for the treatment of osteoarthritis
• Cochrane review: Therapeutic ultrasound for osteoarthritis of the knee or hip
• Cochrane review: Oral or transdermal opioids for osteoarthritis of the knee or hip 
• Experts, including a member of Arthritis Care’s medical advisory board

• Book: Rheumatology (2nd Ed) Volumes 1 and 2. Author: John A Klipple & Paul Dieppe. Publisher: Mosby, 1998 Book:
• Oxford Desk Reference: Rheumatology. Author: Richard Watts et al. Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009
• Book: British Medical Association: Guide to Medicines and Drugs. Author: Prof. John A Henry. Publisher: Dorling Kindersley, 1997 / 2001 / 2004 / 2006 / 2007
• Book: Fast Facts: Rheumatoid Arthritis. Author: John D Isaacs and Larry W Moreland. Publisher: Health Press, 2002
• Book: Living a Full Life with RA. Author: Jasmine Jenkins. Publisher: How to Books, 2005
• Guidelines: NICE (National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence) www.nice.org.uk ‘Rheumatoid Arthritis: National clinical guideline for management and treatment in adults’
• Mayo Clinic
• Arthritis Care's Medical Advisory Group

• Arthritis Research UK booklets: When your child has arthritis and Arthritis: A guide for teenagers
• www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/pdf/JIA-PDF.pdf (clinical guidance)
• Book: Arthritis in Children and Adolescents – Juvenile idiopathic arthritis. 2006. Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Book: Kids with Arthritis – a guide for families. Carrie Britton, 2006 Publisher: Choices. Available from Arthritis Care
• Book: Adolescent Rheumatology. Edited by Janet E McDonagh, Patience H White.
• American College of Rheumatology
• Mayo Clinic
• Contact a Family
• Arthritis Foundation
• Childrens Chronic Arthritis Association 
• Arthritis Care’s information for young people and their families 
• Arthritis Care: evaluation and feedback forms from events for young people with arthritis and their families
• Book: Children with complex and continuing health needs. Jacqui Hewitt-Taylor.
• Book: Extreme Parenting. Sharon Dempsey.
• Silman AJ, Hochberg MC. Epidemiology of the Rheumatic Diseases. 2nd Ed. Oxford Medical Publications (2001).
• BSPAR Standard Assessment for JIA 
• ARMA Standards of Care for Children and Young People with JIA 
• Teaching expertise 
• GP notebook 
• Department for Education 
• Directgov 
• NI Direct 
• Motability 
• Department for Transport 
• SKILL 
• RADAR 
• Citizens Advice 
• Equality and Human Rights Commission 
• NHS Choices 
• Department for Work and Pensions
• www.workingfamilies.org.uk
• www.special-needs-kids.co.uk
• www.oliviasvision.org
• www.parliament.uk
• www.adviceguide.org.uk
• https://nextstep.direct.gov.uk
• www.nhscareers.nhs.uk
• www.sickkids.ca
• www.teenagehealthfreak.org
• Experts, including a member of Arthritis Care’s medical advisory board.

• Arthritis Care’s booklet: Exercise and Arthritis 
  
• Arthritis Care’s booklet: Living with Osteoarthritis
  
• Arthritis News feature October/November 2008: Putting your best foot forward
  
• Arthritis Research UK booklet: Feet, footwear and arthritis
  
• West Suffolk Hospital NHS trust: http://www.wsh.nhs.uk/pals/PatInfo/redirect.aspx?ID=3607
  
• American Academy of Orthopaedic surgeons: www.orthoinfo.aaos.org
  
• www.orthogate.org/patient-education/ankle/osteoarthritis-of-the-ankle.html
  
• www.patient.co.uk

• Arthritis Care’s booklet: Living with Osteoarthritis 
  
• Arthritis News feature April/May 2008: Getting a handle on arthritis
• Arthritis Research UK factsheet: Splints for arthritis of the wrist and hand
  
• Arthritis Research UK’s booklet: Hand and wrist surgery for arthritis
  
• Two patient information leaflets from Lancashire Teaching Hospitals (NHS): Arthritis at the base of the thumb and Carpal tunnel syndrome
  
• Arthritis Today Sept/Oct 05 feature: Strong Hands Weaken Pain article by Sean Kenney.
  

• American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
  
• Arthritis Care’s medical advisory board
• Arthritis Research UK
  
• Clinical Trials
• Mayo Clinic
  
• NHS
  
• NICE
• Patient UK

• Arthritis Care’s booklet: Exercise and Arthritis 
  
• Arthritis Care’s booklet: Living with Osteoarthritis
  
• Arthritis News feature October/November 2008: Putting your best foot forward
• Arthritis Research UK booklet: Feet, footwear and arthritis
  
• www.feetforlife.org
  
• epodiatry.com
  
• www.hygieneexpert.co.uk
  
• American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons: www.acfas.org

• NHS choices: Cervical spondylosis
• BMJ patient leaflet: Neck pain 
• Cervical spondylosis and neck pain. BMJ 2007: 334: 527-31
• Arthritis Research UK: Neck pain
• BMJ clinical evidence
• Arthritis Today: Chest stretches for back pain and neck pain
• NICE clinical guidance for osteoarthritis
• MayoClinic: Neck pain
• Arthritis News June/July 2009: Holding your head high

• Article: The use of transdermal opioids. Author: Dr G Baranidharan & Dr K Simpson. Publisher: GP Magazine, 2006
• NHS Choices: http://nhs.medguides.medicines.org.uk/nhs/medicine.aspx?name=fentanyl&use=pain&preparation=2
• Electronic Medicines Consortium: www.emc.medicines.org.uk
• British National Formulary: www.bnf.org.uk
• Netdoctor – www.netdoctor.co.uk/health_advice/facts/skinpatches.htm
• Netdoctor – www.netdoctor.co.uk/medicines/100002792.html
• Patient UK – http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/achesandpains/medicines/100004272.html
• Patient UK – www.patient.co.uk/doctor/Pain-and-Pain-Relief-(Analgesics).htm
• NHS Choices – www.nhs.uk
• Arthritis Care’s medical advisory board

• Book: Rheumatology (Vols 1 & 2) John Klippel & Paul Dieppe, 1998
• Journal article: ‘Palindromic Rheumatism’ British Medical Journal: 15 December 1979
• Journal article: ‘Palindromic rheumatism is a common disease.....’ Journal of Rheumatology: 2008 35 (6): 992-994
• Mayo Clinic (US) article
• Journal article: Palindromic rheumatism. Southern Medical Journal 2011
• International Palindromic Rheumatism Society
• Arthritis Care’s medical advisory board

• Arthritis Research UK
  
• NHS Clinical Knowledge Summary
• Patient UK
• NHS Choices
  
• National Osteoporosis Society
  
• WebMD
• Arthritis Foundation
• The Mayo Clinic
• The Cochrane Library - Methotrexate and PMR
• PubMed - dental implants and PMR
• PubMed - Methotrexate and PMR
• PubMed - definition of remission and relapse in PMR
• American College of Rheumatology
• National Institute of Health (USA)
  

• Breakout: Arthritis Care lifestyle guide for young people with arthritis
• Prospects
• Government website on education 
• UCAS 
• National Union of Students
• Government information for young people and disabled people 
• NI Government information on young people and disabled people
• Times Good University Guide 2011
• Disability Alliance
• Careers Wales
• My world of work - careers advice in Scotland
• Student Awards Agency for Scotland
• Student Finance ni
• Student Finance Wales

• Mayo Clinic – http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/psoriatic-arthritis/DS00476
• Patient UK – http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/23068899
• Arthritis Research UK – http://www.arc.org.uk/arthinfo/patpubs/6029/6029.asp
• NICE guidance for England and Wales on etanercept, infliximab and adalimumab and golimumab for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis
• Healthcare Improvement Scotland - guidance on etanercept, infliximab and adalimumab and golimumab for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis
• Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) - Diagnosis and Management of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis in Adults
• Guideline for anti-TNF alpha therapy in psoriatic arthritis (2004), British Society for Rheumatology
• US National Library of Medicine

• Arthritis Research UK factsheet
  
• Arthritis Research UK article - July 2000
  
• Arthritis Foundation
  
• NHS Choices: Reactive arthritis
  
• Patient.co.uk -  Reactive arthritis and Reiter's syndrome
  
• Mayoclinic.com - Reactive arthritis
  
• Journal: Rheumatology, 2000; 39: 117-121
  
• Book: Current Opinions in Rhematology, 2005, pp400-405
  
• Magazine: Nursing Times November 11 2003 
• National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
  
• National guidelines on management of sexually acquired reactive arthritis
  
• Arthritis Care discussion forum

• UK Scientific Advisory Committee on nutrition and Food Standards Agency
• Information Sheet: ‘Sources of Calcium’ The Vegetarian Society
• Booklet: ‘Healthy Eating – facts about food’ The National Osteoporosis Society
• Arthritis Care’s medical advisory board

• Book: The ulitmate guide to sex and disabiliity. Author: Miriam Kaufman, Cory Silverberg & Fran Odette. Publisher: Cleis Press, 2003
• Book: She dances to a different drum. Author: Kath Gillespie-Sells, Mildrette Hill & Bree Robins. Publisher: Kings Fund, 1998
• Arthritis Research UK: Sex and arthritis
• Arthritis Foundation: Relationships

• NHS Map of Medicine: http://healthguides.mapofmedicine.com/choices/map/seronegative_arthritis1.html
• Arthritis Research UK: Seronegative spondyloarthopathy and Spondyloarthritis
• Arthritis Research UK: Testing, testing
• Arthritis Research UK: Diagnosing inflammatory arthritis
• American College of Rheumatology
• National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society
• Arthritis Victoria
• The Rheumatologist

• Arthritis Research UK factsheet: Sjögren's syndrome
  
• British Sjögren's Syndrome Association factsheet and guides for diagnosis and management
• NHS Choices
• Mayo Clinic
  
• Patient UK
• Book: Living with Sjögren's Syndrome
• Book: The Sjögren's Syndrome Survival Guide
• Arthritis Today article
• National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
  
• Arthritis Care's medical advisory board

• NHS choices: www.nhs.uk/conditions/hip-replacement and www.nhs.uk/conditions/knee-replacement
• National Joint Registry: www.njrcentre.org.uk
• Hospital Episode Statistics: www.hesonline.org.uk
• Booklets: ‘Shoulder and Elbow Replacement’ ‘Hands and Wrist Surgery for Arthritis’ ‘A new knee Joint’ ‘A new Knee Joint’ ‘Preparing for a Hip Replacement’ Arthritis Research Campaign
• Royal College of Surgeons: www.rcseng.ac.uk/patient_information
• Guidelines: NICE (National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence) www.nice.org.uk ‘Rheumatoid Arthritis: National clinical guideline for management and treatment in adults’ and ‘Osteoarthritis: Arthritis: National clinical guideline for management and treatment in adults’ 
• British Orthopedic Association: leaflet: ‘Total knee replacement’
• British Orthopedic Association: leaflet: ‘Primary Total Hip Replacement – A guide to good practice’
• Patient information: British Society for Surgery of the Hand. ‘Terminal finger joint arthritis’
• Paper: NHS Library: www.library.nhs.uk ‘Has surgery for RA moved on in 2008? Ankle and foot’
  
• BMJ Clinical Evidence Osteoarthritis of the hip
  
• BMJ Best Health
• Experts, including a member of Arthritis Care’s medical advisory board

• Arthritis Care’s medical advisory board
• Arthritis Today
• Guidelines: The British Pain Society ‘A practical guide to the provision of Chronic Pain Services for adults in Primary Care’
• Cochrane Library: TENS for Chronic Pain, TENS versus placebo for chronic low-back pain, TENS for treatment of rheumatoid Arthritis in the Hand
• Lloyds Pharmacy
  
• Patient UK
• Which?
  

• Book: Rheumatology (2nd Ed) Volumes 1 and 2. Author: John A Klipple & Paul Dieppe. Publisher: Mosby, 1998
• Book: Kelleys Textbook of Rhematology, Volumes 1 and 2. Edited by Shaun Ruddy et al. Publisher: Saunders, 2001
• Book: Textbook of Musculoskeletal Medicine. Author: Michael Hutson & Richard Ellia. Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006
• Book: Epidemiology of Rheumatic Diseases. Author: Alan Silman and Mark Holberg. Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1993
• Book: Oxford Desk Reference: Rheumatology. Author: Richard Watts et al. Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009
• Book: British Medical Association: Guide to Medicines and Drugs. Author: Prof. John A Henry. Publisher: Dorling Kindersley, 1997 / 2001 / 2004 / 2006 / 2007
• Guidelines: NICE (National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence) www.nice.org.uk ‘Rheumatoid Arthritis: National clinical guideline for management and treatment in adults’ and ‘Osteoarthritis: Arthritis: National clinical guideline for management and treatment in adults’
• Arthritis Care's factsheets on specific conditions
• Arthritis Research UK
• NHS Choices
• Arthritis Care's Medical Advisory Group

• Booklet: ‘Sick or Disabled – a basic guide to benefits’ Department for Work and Pensions.
• www.Direct.gov.uk Information on benefits, disability and employment schemes
• www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk and a Disability Employment Advisor
• Booklet: Arthritis Research Campaign - ‘Back Pain’
• www.worksmart.org.uk Trades Union Congress
• Equality and Human Rights Commission:
  i. Booklet: ‘Your rights at work’
  ii. www.equalityhumanrights.com/your-rights/disability
  
• www.workfoundation.co.uk: Report: ‘Fit for Work? Musculoskeletal Disorders in the European Workforce’
• Factsheets: Disability Alliance: www.disabilityalliance.org/fact.htm
• Experts, including a member of Arthritis Care’s medical advisory board

• www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/evm_calcium.pdf
• Food Standards Agency – www.eatwell.gov.uk/healthydiet/nutritionessentials/vitaminsandminerals/vitamind/
• Food Standards Agency – www.eatwell.gov.uk/healthydiet/nutritionessentials/vitaminsandminerals/calcium/
• Healthy bones, National Osteoporosis Society – www.nos.org.uk/NetCommunity/Document.doc?id=395
• Department of Health (1998) Nutrition and Bone Health with Reference to Calcium and Vitamin D. Dietary Reference Values for Food Energy and Nutrients for the United Kingdom. Report in Health and Social Subjects no. 49. London: HM Stationery Office.
• McCance and Widdowson (2002) The Composition of Foods. 6th summary edition, Royal Society of Chemisty, Cambridge