Racial/ethnic differences in the use of biologic disease‐modifying antirheumatic drugs among California Medicaid rheumatoid arthritis patients

LH Chu, C Portugal, AA Kawatkar… - Arthritis care & …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To assess racial/ethnic differences in the use of biologic disease‐modifying
antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) among California Medicaid (Medi‐Cal) rheumatoid arthritis …

Use of disease‐modifying medications for rheumatoid arthritis by race and ethnicity in the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey

DH Solomon, JZ Ayanian, E Yelin… - Arthritis care & …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Disease‐modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) are recommended for virtually
all patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We investigated the use of DMARDs in patients …

Use of biologic therapy in racial minorities with rheumatoid arthritis from 2 US health care systems

GS Kerr, C Swearingen, TR Mikuls… - JCR: Journal of Clinical …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Background In the United States, there is racial/ethnic disparity in the care of rheumatoid
arthritis (RA), yet there are limited data regarding the impact of varied health care systems …

[HTML][HTML] Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey

DH Solomon, E Yelin, JN Katz, B Lu… - Arthritis Research & …, 2013 - Springer
Introduction Numerous studies across different health systems have documented that many
patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) do not receive disease-modifying anti-rheumatic …

Changes in use of disease‐modifying antirheumatic drugs for rheumatoid arthritis in the United States during 1983–2009

SC Kim, E Yelin, C Tonner… - Arthritis care & …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Use of nonbiologic disease‐modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and/or
biologic DMARDs is generally recommended to improve the prognosis of patients with …

[HTML][HTML] Factors associated with initial or subsequent choice of biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

Y Jin, RJ Desai, J Liu, NK Choi, SC Kim - Arthritis research & therapy, 2017 - Springer
Background Biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) are increasingly
used for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment. However, little is known based on contemporary …

Factors associated with use of disease modifying agents for rheumatoid arthritis in the National Hospital and Ambulatory Medical Care Survey

P Gaitonde, LM Bozzi, FT Shaya - Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective We examined the treatment patterns among adults with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
and identified factors influencing access to traditional and biological disease modifying …

Treatment of older adult patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis: improved but not optimal

G Schmajuk, S Schneeweiss, JN Katz… - Arthritis Care & …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Objective The National Committee on Quality Assurance has determined that all
patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) should be treated with disease‐modifying …

Racial and ethnic differences in medication use among beneficiaries of social security disability insurance with rheumatoid arthritis

I Navarro-Millán, M Rajan, GE Lui, LM Kern… - Seminars in arthritis and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective To determine racial/ethnic differences in the use of conventional synthetic or
biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (csDMARDs or bDMARDs, respectively) …

[HTML][HTML] DMARD non-use in low-income, elderly rheumatoid arthritis patients: results of 86 structured interviews

EM Brown, KL Garneau, H Tsao… - Arthritis Research & …, 2014 - Springer
Introduction Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) have become the treatment
standard for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Although several general-population …