Abstracts tagged "abatacept and patient-reported outcome measures"

Abstract Number: 2748 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Evaluation of Patient-Reported Outcomes By Baseline Disease Duration: 6-Month Data from Two Clinical Trials of Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Treated with Abatacept
Daniel E. Furst¹, VP Bykerk², Gerd Burmester³, BG Combe⁴, T. W. J. Huizinga⁵, E Alemao⁶, A Johnsen⁶ and Paul Emery⁷, ¹Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, ³Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁴Montpellier University, Montpellier, France, ⁵Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁶Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, ⁷University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Patients with RA and longer disease duration generally do not respond as well to treatment with DMARDs as patients with shorter duration of disease.…