Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria |
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• Persons with hand OA according to the ACR classification criteria for clinical OA [26]: | • Persons with a cognitive dysfunction; |
◦ Pain, aching or stiffness in the hand and 3 of the following: | • Persons who do not understand the Norwegian language; |
◦ Hard tissue enlargement involving at least 2 of 10 selected joints | • Persons with inflammatory rheumatic diseases (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis) or cancer; |
◦ Hard tissue enlargement of at least 2 DIP joints. | • Persons who have recently experienced severe trauma; |
◦ Less than 3 swollen MCP joints | • Persons who have recently undergone OA surgery or other major surgery; |
◦ Deformity of at least 1 of the 10 selected joints | • Persons who have received steroid injections in their hand joints during the previous two months. |
OR uni-/bilateral OA in the CMC1 joint | |
• FIHOA* total score ≥5 | |
• Access to a telephone |