ReviewCurrent rheumatology reports2015
How important is mode of administration in treatments for rheumatic diseases and related conditions?
Review in Current rheumatology reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Understanding Patient Preferences for Medication Process Attributes: A Systematic Literature Review.The patient · 2026Pooled it
- Patterns and determinants of response to novel therapies in juvenile and adult-onset polyarthritis.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2024Review
- Comparisons of treatment satisfaction and health-related quality of life in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with tofacitinib and adalimumab.Arthritis research & therapy · 2023Article
- OMERACT Quality-adjusted Life-years (QALY) Working Group: Do Current QALY Measures Capture What Matters to Patients?The Journal of rheumatology · 2017Article
- Patients' preferences for anti-osteoporosis drug treatment: a cross-European discrete choice experiment.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2017Article
- Patient preferences for treatment of multiple sclerosis with disease-modifying therapies: a discrete choice experiment.Patient preference and adherence · 2016Article
- A Review of Patient Preferences for Osteoporosis Drug Treatment.Current rheumatology reports · 2015Review
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Many new drugs do not offer clinical benefits over existing treatments but provide potentially more convenient modes of administration. These include how frequently a treatment is given, how it is delivered, who gives the treatment, and whether there are any associated local adverse reactions. We reviewed studies in rheumatology that ask patients and society the value they assign to these aspects of treatment in comparison to the benefits and side effects and costs. We find that mode of administration is generally valued by both patients and society, but the extent depends on the context of the disease and the study participants. Respondents with a more severe disease seem to assign less value to mode and frequency of administration, and prioritize improvement in pain and function. However, patients with chronic, but less severe, disease seem to place greater value on mode of administration. Furthermore, respondents with experience of the treatments perceived to be more inconvenient assigned lower value to more convenient treatments. Unfortunately, we found few examples of studies that reported values in a format that could easily be incorporated into resource allocation decisions by payers.
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