Impact of biologic therapies on need for hip and knee replacement among rheumatoid arthritis and non-rheumatoid arthritis patients in Ontario, Canada: An interrupted time-series analysis

Impact of biologic therapies on need for hip and knee replacement among rheumatoid arthritis and non-rheumatoid arthritis patients in Ontario, Canada: An interrupted time-series analysis

Rates of orthopaedic surgery among rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients have been decreasing in several developed countries. One explanatory factor could be the introduction of biologic therapies. Whilst we recently tested this hypothesis using UK data, analyses that account for concurrent trends in n...

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Main Authors: Hawley, S, Ling, V, Edwards, C, Arden, N, Cooper, C, Judge, A, Paterson, M, Hawker, G, Prieto-Alhambra, D
Format: Conference item
Published: Oxford University Press 2017

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