Follow-Up of Patients With Axial Spondyloarthritis in Specialist Health Care With Remote Monitoring and Self-Monitoring Compared With Regular Face-to-Face Follow-Up Visits (the ReMonit Study): Protocol for a Randomized, Controlled Open-Label Noninferiority Trial

Inger Jorid Berg   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Anne Therese Tveter   ^{1, 2} , PT, PhD ;   Gunnstein Bakland   ^{3, 4} , MD, PhD ;   Sarah Hakim   ¹ ;   Eirik K Kristianslund   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Siri Lillegraven   ¹ , MPH, MD, PhD ;   Gary J Macfarlane   ⁵ , MD, PhD ;   Ellen Moholt   ¹ , MSc ;   Sella A Provan   ^{1, 6} , MD, PhD ;   Joseph Sexton   ¹ , MSc, PhD ;   Emil EK Thomassen   ¹ , PT, MSc ;   Annette De Thurah   ^{7, 8} , MPH, PhD ;   Laure Gossec   ^{9, 10} , MD, PhD ;   Espen A Haavardsholm   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Nina Østerås   ¹ , PT, PhD

¹ Center for Treatment of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (REMEDY), Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway

² Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Rehabilitation Science and Health Technology, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway

³ Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway

⁴ Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

⁵ Aberdeen Centre for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Health (Epidemiology Group), University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

⁶ Section for Public Health, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Elverum, Norway

⁷ Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

⁸ Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

⁹ INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

¹⁰ Rheumatology Department, Assistance Publique des Hopitaux de Paris, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France