TY - JOUR AU - Hernández-Cruz, Blanca AU - Márquez-Saavedra, Esther AU - Caliz-Caliz, Rafael AU - Navarro-Sarabia, Federico PY - 2016 DO - 10.1186/s13075-016-1137-4 SN - 1478-6354 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10668/2538 T2 - Arthritis Research & Therapy AB - BACKGROUNDRheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients are treated with a mean of 3-4 conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (csDMARDs) with or without glucocorticoids (GCs), before the first biologic prescription. The main reasons for... LA - en PB - BioMed Central KW - Glucocorticoids KW - RA KW - TNF antagonist KW - csDMARDs KW - Artritis reumatoide KW - Antirreumáticos KW - Factores biológicos KW - Glucocorticoides KW - Medical Subject Headings::Chemicals and Drugs::Chemical Actions and Uses::Pharmacologic Actions::Therapeutic Uses::Antirheumatic Agents KW - Medical Subject Headings::Diseases::Musculoskeletal Diseases::Joint Diseases::Arthritis::Arthritis, Rheumatoid KW - Medical Subject Headings::Chemicals and Drugs::Biological Factors KW - Medical Subject Headings::Health Care::Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation::Quality of Health Care::Epidemiologic Factors::Comorbidity KW - Medical Subject Headings::Check Tags::Female KW - Medical Subject Headings::Chemicals and Drugs::Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists::Hormones::Adrenal Cortex Hormones::Glucocorticoids KW - Medical Subject Headings::Organisms::Eukaryota::Animals::Chordata::Vertebrates::Mammals::Primates::Haplorhini::Catarrhini::Hominidae::Humans KW - Medical Subject Headings::Chemicals and Drugs::Polycyclic Compounds::Steroids::Pregnanes::Pregnadienes::Pregnadienediols::Prednisone KW - Medical Subject Headings::Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Investigative Techniques::Epidemiologic Methods::Epidemiologic Study Characteristics as Topic::Epidemiologic Studies::Cohort Studies::Longitudinal... KW - Medical Subject Headings::Chemicals and Drugs::Complex Mixtures::Biological Products TI - Comparative effectiveness of treatment with the first TNF antagonist in monotherapy, the first TNF antagonist plus one conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug, and the first TNF antagonist plus two or more conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. TY - research article ER -