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Adherence to disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and the effects of exposure misclassification on the risk of hospital admission.

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OBJECTIVE:To describe the effect of different exposure classification strategies for disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) on drug-outcome associations. METHODS:We studied the association between DMARD initiation and all-cause hospitalizations in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), 1995-2005. Initiators of DMARDs and oral glucocorticoids were followed for < or =180 days. We compared 2 strategies for exposure classification: a persistent exposure required (PER) approach, in which followup stopped when the regimen changed; and a persistent exposure ignored (PEI) approach, in which followup continued despite regimen changes. For PEI, adherence was assessed using the medication possession ratio. All-cause hospitalization risk was compared among RA regimen initiators using Cox models and methotrexate as the reference. RESULTS:We identified 28,906 episodes of medication initiation. In PER analyses, tumor necrosis factor alpha antagonists did not increase hospitalization risk compared with methotrexate, whereas leflunomide did (hazard ratio [HR] 1.36, 95% confidence interval [95% CI] 1.1-1.67). Glucocorticoids increased hospitalization risk (HR 1.29, 1.54, and 2.03 for low, medium, and high doses, respectively). PEI results were similar to PER except that infliximab initiation increased the risk of hospitalization compared with methotrexate (HR 1.46, 95% CI 1.19-1.8), and most other effects were closer to the null. In PEI, adherence ranged from 73% for etanercept to 6% for glucocorticoids and adherence to methotrexate was 59%. CONCLUSION:Compared with methotrexate initiation, leflunomide or glucocorticoid initiation consistently increased all-cause hospitalizations in the first 180 days of use. Most PER and PEI estimates were similar; observed differences in risk between these methods were likely due to differences in adherence.

journal_name

Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken)

journal_title

Arthritis care & research

authors

Grijalva CG,Kaltenbach L,Arbogast PG,Mitchel EF Jr,Griffin MR

doi

10.1002/acr.20087

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2010-05-01 00:00:00

pages

730-4

issue

eissn

2151-464X

issn

2151-4658

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Adherence to disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and the effects of exposure misclassification on the risk of hospital admission.