This is the first Latin American effort to standardize and harmonize the treatment provided to RA patients and to establish centers of excellence that would offer to RA patients acceptable clinical results and high levels of safety.

Centres of excellence are the response to a virtuous strategy that is determined by the following elements: a directly proportional relationship between the best quality and the maximum efficiency of a health service, together with its sustainability over time and its capacity to maintain compliance with high quality standards that make the difference compared to the competition.

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Within the framework of the REAL-PANLAR project, a call is open for institutions that voluntarily express their intention to participate in the certification process in compliance with the high quality standards for the management of rheumatoid arthritis proposed by PANLAR. Download the technical document available

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