The updated BSR guidelines for anti-TNF in adults with RA: What has changed and why?
✍ Scribed by Dr Chris Deighton
- Book ID
- 102533606
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 112 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1478-2189
- DOI
- 10.1002/msc.2
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
In 2001 the British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) published guidelines for prescribing TNF‐αblockers in adults with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In an unusual move, the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) accepted the BSR guidelines and published them unchanged and included them in their own Technology Appraisal (National Institute of Clinical Excellence, 2002). The field of anti‐TNF in RA is rapidly changing, and the BSR Standards, Guidelines and Audit Working Group decided in 2004 to update the guidelines. These were published in February 2005 (Ledingham and Deighton, 2005). This article summarizes the key changes, and attempts to justify them, using further data that has emerged since the updated guidelines were produced, and audit data from the Derby Rheumatology department. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.