Abstracts tagged "health care cost and rheumatic disease"

Abstract Number: 636 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Prospective, Intervention, Multicenter Study of Utility of Biologic Drug Monitoring with Respect to the Efficacy and Cost of Adalimumab Tapering in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases (34-week descriptive data)
Iñigo Gorostiza¹, Eduardo Úcar Angulo², Catalina Gómez Arango², Clara Eugenia Perez³, Juan Ramon De Dios⁴, Belen Alvarez⁴, Ana Ruibal Escribano^4,5, Claudia Stoye⁴, Margarida Vasques⁴, Joaquin Belzunegui Otano⁶, Antonio Escobar⁷, Ziortza Trancho⁸, Ainhoa Ruiz del Agua⁹, Lorena Del Rio⁹, Antonio Martínez⁹ and Daniel Nagore⁹, ¹Research Department, Hospital Universitario de Basurto, Bilbao, Spain, ²Rheumatology, Rheumatology Department, Basurto University Hospital, Bilbao, Spain, ³Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de Basurto, Bilbao, Spain, ⁴Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de Araba, Vitoria, Spain, ⁵Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de Araba, Vittoria, Spain, ⁶Donostia University Hospital, San Sebastian, Spain, ⁷Unidad de Investigación, Red de Investigación en Servicios de Salud en enfermedades crónicas (REDISSEC), Hospital Universitario de Basurto, Bilbao, Spain, ⁸Unidad de Investigación, Hospital Universitario de Basurto, Bilbao, Spain, ⁹R&D, Progenika-Grifols, Derio, Spain
Background/Purpose: Adalimumab (ADL) dose tapering based on clinical assessment is a usual practice especially in patients who have achieved clinical remission. The primary aim of…

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