Efficacy and safety of methotrexate in combination with other Non-Biologic diseasemodifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

Bulletin of the Hospital for Joint Diseases

Volumn 71, Issue , 2013, Pages S20-S28

  Castrejón, Isabel ^a   Gibson, Kathryn A ^b   Pincus, Theodore ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; METHOTREXATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84888332089     PISSN: 23284633     EISSN: 23285273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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