Abstracts tagged "Biologic drugs"

Abstract Number: 997 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Does Biologic Treatment For Rheumatoid Arthritis Offset Health Care Costs In Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis? An Instrumental Variable Approach Using Administrative Data
Nick Bansback¹, Eric Fu², Daphne Guh², Huiying Sun², Wei Zhang², Diane Lacaille^3,4 and Aslam H. Anis¹, ¹School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²St. Paul's Hospital, Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³Rheumatology, Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, University of British Columbia, Richmond, BC, Canada, ⁴Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Expenditure on biologic therapies for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) accounts for the highest pharmaceutical spending in many western healthcare systems. Given their clinical benefit with…
Abstract Number: 998 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Adequacy Of Drug Coverage and Cost-Sharing For Medicare Beneficiaries With Rheumatoid Arthritis
Jinoos Yazdany¹, R. Adams Dudley², Randi Chen³ and Chien-Wen Tseng⁴, ¹Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Medicine, University of California San Francisco Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, San Francisco, CA, ³Pacific Health Research and Education Institute, Honolulu, HI, ⁴Dept of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Hawaii and Pacific Health Research and Education Institute, Honolulu, HI
Background/Purpose : Biologic and non-biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) significantly reduce pain, disability and mortality in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We evaluated how well RA drugs…
Abstract Number: 495 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Impact Of Inadequate Response To Prior Biologic Agents On Abatacept Drug Retention In Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients. A Pan-European Analysis Of RA Registries
Axel Finckh¹, Florenzo Iannone², Juan Gomez Reino³, David Neto⁴, Elisabeth Lie⁵, Piet van Riel⁶, Merete Lund Hetland⁷, Karel Pavelka⁸, Carl Turesson⁹, Xavier Mariette¹⁰ and Jacques-Eric Gottenberg¹¹, ¹Department of Medical Specialities, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, ²D.I.M.I.M.P, Rheumatology Unit - University of Bari, Bari, Italy, ³Rheumatology Department, Hospital Clínico de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, ⁴Rheumatology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, ⁵Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁶Rheumatology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands, ⁷Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, The Danish Rheumatologic Database (DANBIO), Glostrup Hospital., Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁸Department of Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁹Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, ¹⁰Paris-Sud University, Paris, France, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Background/Purpose: In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), abatacept (ABA) may be used in biologic naïve patients (pts) or after failure to an anti-TNF or other biologic agents…