The importance of the disease process and disease-modifying antirheumatic drug treatment in the development of septic arthritis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) on the likelihood of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) developing septic arthritis (SA). METHODS: The United Kingdom General Practice Research Database (GPRD) was used to identify adults with RA, and age-, sex-...

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Main Authors: Edwards, C, Cooper, C, Fisher, D, Field, M, van Staa, T, Arden, N
格式: Journal article
语言:English
出版: 2007