Abstracts tagged "treatment and socioeconomic factors"

Abstract Number: 1844 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Inequities in Access to Biologic Disease-Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs for Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Across 46 European Countries
Polina Putrik¹, Sofia Ramiro², Milena Pavlova³, Tore K. Kvien⁴, Tuulikki Sokka⁵, Till Uhlig⁴, Annelies Boonen⁶ and Equity In Access To Treatment of RA Across Europe⁷, ¹Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands, ²Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal, ³Health Services Research, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands, ⁴Dept. of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁵Rheumatology, Jyvaskyla Central Hospital, Jyvaskyla, Finland, ⁶Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands, ⁷European Region
Background/Purpose: In the treatment of patients with RA, EULAR recommends to initiate biologic DMARDs after failing synthetic DMARDs. However, biologics are costly, and it is…
Abstract Number: 1845 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Inequalities Across 46 European Countries in Clinical Eligibility Criteria for the Start of A First (Reimbursed) Biologic in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Polina Putrik¹, Sofia Ramiro², Tore K. Kvien³, Tuulikki Sokka⁴, Till Uhlig³, Annelies Boonen⁵ and Equity in Clinical Eligibility Criteria for RA treatment⁶, ¹Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands, ²Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal, ³Dept. of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁴Rheumatology, Jyvaskyla Central Hospital, Jyvaskyla, Finland, ⁵Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands, ⁶European Region
Background/Purpose: In the treatment of patients with RA, strategies that include biologics have resulted in a better outcome for patients with regard to disease activity,…

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