%0 Journal Article
%T Treatment patterns, health care resource utilization and costs of rheumatoid arthritis patients in Italy: findings from a retrospective administrative database analysis
%A Diego Sangiorgi
%A Luca Degli Esposti
%A Pedro Lopez-Romero
%A Serena Losi
%A Silvia Antonelli
%A Stefano Buda
%A Valentina Perrone
%A Veronica Rogai
%A Walid Fakhouri
%J Archive of "Open Access Rheumatology : Research and Reviews".
%D 2018
%R 10.2147/OARRR.S164738
%X This study aimed to: 1) describe treatment patterns and drug utilization profile (in terms of therapeutic strategy used, switch, persistence and drug consumption variation) among adult patients affected by rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and 2) estimate the health care resource utilization and its associated direct cost for the management of RA patients
%K rheumatoid arthritis
%K treatment patterns
%K drug utilization
%K real-world data
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6091254/