A prospective survey on therapeutic inertia in psoriatic arthritis (OPTI'PsA).

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Clinical inertia, or therapeutic inertia (TI), is the medical behaviour of not initiating or intensifying treatment when recommended by clinical recommendations. To our knowledge, our survey is the first to assess TI around psoriatic arthritis (PsA).

Methods

Eight hundred and twenty-five French rheumatologists were contacted via email between January and March 2021 and invited to complete an online questionnaire consisting of seven clinical vignettes: five cases ('oligoarthritis', 'enthesitis', 'polyarthritis', 'neoplastic history', 'cardiovascular risk') requiring treatment OPTImization, and two 'control' cases (distal interphalangeal arthritis, atypical axial involvement) not requiring any change of treatment-according to the most recent PsA recommendations. Rhe

SUBMITTER: Liote F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10836978 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature