Results

Generally, RABBIT shows biologic DMARDs to be effective, safe and well tolerated in daily rheumatologic care. Used by experienced rheumatologists, they are a safe treatment option for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, who do not respond adequately to non-biologic DMARDs.

In practice, biologic DMARDs are not prescribed until non-biologic DMARDs fail or are not tolerated. That means that patients for whom biologic DMARDs are indicated differ systematically from patients who are treated with non-biologic DMARDs. Therefore, highly sophisticated statistical methods are required to compare patients on biologic and non-biologic DMARDs. Here, we will give a short insight into our published results.