Pharmacological treatment patterns in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis in the Netherlands: a real-world data analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate medication prescription patterns among children with JIA, including duration, sequence and reasons for medication discontinuation.

Methods

This study is a single-centre, retrospective analysis of prospective data from the electronic medical records of JIA patients receiving systemic therapy aged 0-18 years between 1 April 2011 and 31 March 2019. Patient characteristics (age, gender, JIA subtype) and medication prescriptions were extracted and analysed using descriptive statistics, Sankey diagrams and Kaplan-Meier survival methods.

Results

Over a median of 4.2 years follow-up, the 20 different medicines analysed were prescribed as monotherapy (n = 15) or combination therapy (n = 48 unique combinations) among 236 patients. In non-systemic JIA, s

SUBMITTER: Kip MMA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9949706 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature