Treatment strategies in patients with rheumatoid arthritis for whom methotrexate monotherapy has failed: Data from the NOR-DMARD register

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2103-2110

  Lie, Elisabeth ^a   Van Der Heijde, Désirée ^a,b   Uhlig, Till ^a   Mikkelsen, Knut ^c   Kalstad, Synøve ^d   Kaufmann, Cecilie ^e   Rødevand, Erik ^f   Kvien, Tore K ^a  

^a DIAKONHJEMMET HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^e Buskerud Central Hospital   (Norway)

^f TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; ETANERCEPT; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; INFLIXIMAB; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORWAY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 82755189508     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2011.152363     Document Type: Article

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