Adherence to biologic DMARD therapies in rheumatoid arthritis
- 27 July 2010
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Informa Healthcare in Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy
- Vol. 10 (9), 1367-1378
- https://doi.org/10.1517/14712598.2010.510508
Abstract
The efficacy of the biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) shown in clinical trials may be jeopardized due to prevalent poor patient adherence. Patient adherence including compliance and persistence with biologic DMARDs in rheumatoid arthritis. This is a comprehensive review of the literature. The various definitions and methodologies of measurement used in adherence research are reviewed and data are presented by separating compliance and persistence. Differences in compliance rates were mainly based on numerical trends. There was evidence for and against greater persistence with infliximab versus adalimumab and etanercept. There was a trend in favour of greater compliance and lower persistence with TNF-alpha inhibitor monotherapy versus in combination therapy with methotrexate. The evidence suggests that adherence to biologic DMARDs is suboptimal. When further research is applied in the field, agreed definitions and methodology need to be used to allow for cross-study comparisons. In addition, adherence should be assessed in conjunction with clinical outcomes and not on its own so that it can be better understood what levels of adherence provide the required clinical outcomes.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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