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1 Department Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität München, Germany. whaeuser@klinikum-saarbruecken.de.
2 Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, USA.
3 National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita, USA.
4 Università degli Studi di Milano, Luigi Sacco University Hospital, Milan, Italy.
5 Department of Internal Medicine H, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
6 Department of Psychiatry, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
7 Department of Medicine, Monash University and Department of Rheumatology, Monash Health, Melbourne, Australia.
8 Leuven Center for Algology and Pain Management, University Hospitals Leuven, KU Leuven, Belgium.
9 Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, and Department of Surgical Science, Uppsala University, Sweden.
10 Department of Public Health and Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
11 Department Rheumatology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Sweden.
12 Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, and Division of Rheumatology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.