Abstracts tagged "cost containment and psoriatic arthritis"

Abstract Number: 2624 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Cost-Effectiveness of Swapping Strategy for Established Psoriatic Arthritis and Immediate Versus Standard Swapping Strategy for Early Psoriatic Arthritis
Dongze Wu¹, Tingting Xu², Isaac T. Cheng¹, Steven H.M. Lam¹, Jiang Yue¹, Priscilla Wong¹, Edmund Li¹, Tena K. Li¹ and Lai-Shan Tam³, ¹Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, The Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong, China, ²China Center for Health Development Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China; Department of Health Policy and Administration, Peking University School of Public Health, Beijing, China, Beijing, China, ³Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, The Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Background/Purpose: For patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) failing the first TNF-inhibitor, switching to biologic DMARDs [bDMARDs] with different mechanism of actions (swapping strategy) may be…