Treatment Sequence After Initiating Biologic Therapy for Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis in Korea: A Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Study.

Min Jung Kim Jun Won Park Sun-Kyung Lee Yumi Jang Soyoung Kim Matthias Stoelzel Jonathan Lumen Chua Tae-Jong Kim

Published in: Journal of rheumatic diseases (2022)

This real-world study provides information on treatment characteristics of RA patients in Korea after starting a bDMARD. In contrary to guidelines, cDMARD addition was more often than bDMARD switches in daily clinical practice.

Keyphrases

clinical practice
rheumatoid arthritis
end stage renal disease
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
prognostic factors
cross sectional
systemic sclerosis
patient reported