Scientific article
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Effectiveness of biologic DMARDs in monotherapy versus in combination with synthetic DMARDs in rheumatoid arthritis: data from the Swiss Clinical Quality Management Registry

Published inRheumatology, vol. 54, no. 9, p. 1664-1672
Publication date2015
Abstract

To determine the frequency of use of biologic DMARDs (bDMARDs) in monotherapy, to describe the baseline characteristics of patients treated with bDMARDs in monotherapy and to compare the effectiveness of bDMARDs in monotherapy with that of bDMARDs in combination with synthetic DMARDs (sDMARDs).

Keywords
  • Aged
  • Antirheumatic Agents/therapeutic use
  • Arthritis, Rheumatoid/drug therapy/epidemiology
  • Biological Products/therapeutic use
  • Comorbidity
  • Disease Management
  • Drug Therapy, Combination
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Kaplan-Meier Estimate
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Proportional Hazards Models
  • Quality of Health Care
  • Registries
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Switzerland/epidemiology
  • Treatment Outcome
Citation (ISO format)
GABAY, Cem et al. Effectiveness of biologic DMARDs in monotherapy versus in combination with synthetic DMARDs in rheumatoid arthritis: data from the Swiss Clinical Quality Management Registry. In: Rheumatology, 2015, vol. 54, n° 9, p. 1664–1672. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/kev019
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