Abstracts tagged "economics and risk"

Abstract Number: 1007 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
Dose Of Corticosteroid, Risk Of Adverse Events and Healthcare Resource Utilization In Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Wei-Shi Yeh¹, Shih-Yin Chen², Kathleen McCarty³, Qian Li², Yuan-Chi Lee² and Nathalie Franchimont³, ¹Biogen Idec, Cambridge, MA, ²United BioSource Corporation, Lexington, MA, ³Biogen Idec Inc., Weston, MA
Background/Purpose: Gluco-corticosteroids (GCs) are frequently used to treat autoimmune disease and their chronic use has long been known to cause adverse events (AEs). The purpose…