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ArticleClinical rheumatology2010

The use of tumour necrosis factor alpha-blockers in daily routine. An Austrian consensus project.

Burkhard F Leeb, Elke Böttcher, Hans-Peter Brezinschek, Christoph Czerwenka, Manfred Herold, Hans Hitzelhammer, Franz Mayrhofer, Rudolf Puchner, Franz Rainer, Bernhard Rintelen and 3 more

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Article in Clinical rheumatology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. [Rheumatology in Austria].Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Burkhard F LeebKarl Landsteiner-Institute for Clinical Rheumatology, First and Second Department of Medicine, Center for Rheumatology, Lower Austria, State Hospital Stockerau, Landstrasse 18, Stockerau, 2000, Austria. burkhard.leeb@stockerau.lknoe.at
Elke Böttcher
Hans-Peter Brezinschek
Christoph Czerwenka
Manfred Herold
Hans Hitzelhammer
Franz Mayrhofer
Rudolf Puchner
Franz Rainer
Bernhard Rintelen
Michael Schirmer
Ulrike Stuby
Hans Bröll

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To define relevant disease parameters and their respective limits indicating the initiation of TNF-alpha-blockers in individual patients. Subsequently, to analyze retrospectively patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic arthritis (PsA) or ankylosing spondylitis (AS), who started TNF-alpha inhibition in 2006. Points to consider, regarded relevant for individual treatment decisions as well as their assessment methods, were ascertained by experts' consensus applying the Delphi technique. Subsequently, these parameters' thresholds with respect to the initiation of a TNF-alpha-blocker were identified. Thereafter, the rheumatologists representing 12 centres all over Austria agreed to retrospectively analyze their patients started on a TNF-alpha-blocker in 2006. Experts' opinion regarding disease parameters relevant to initiate TNF-alpha-blockers in RA patients only slightly differed from those applied in clinical trials, but the parameters' threshold values were considerably lower. For PsA patients, some differences and for AS patients, considerable differences between experts' opinion and clinical studies appeared, which held also true for decisive parameters' means and thresholds. Six hundred and fifty patients, started on TNF-blockers in 2006, could be analyzed retrospectively, 408 RA patients (53.3 years mean, 340 females), 93 PsA patients (48.9 years mean, 59 males) and 149 AS patients AS (42.2 years mean, 108 males), representing approximately 25% of all Austrian patients initiated on a TNF-blocker in this respective year. Far more individualized, patient-oriented treatment approaches, at least in part, are applied in daily routine compared with those derived from clinical trials or recommendations from investigative rheumatologists.

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AdalimumabAdultAntibodies, MonoclonalAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedArthritis, PsoriaticArthritis, RheumatoidAustriaDecision MakingEtanerceptFemaleHumansImmunoglobulin GInfliximabMaleMiddle AgedPractice Guidelines as TopicAdalimumabAntibodies, MonoclonalAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedEtanerceptImmunoglobulin GInfliximabReceptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor

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PMID19904485
PMCPMC2797412

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