AB0474 Identification of Tuberculosis Incidence Through the Use of a Validated Claims-Based Algorithm Among Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Treated with Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs

BackgroundTuberculosis (TB), a reportable disease world-wide, is rare (3 cases per 100,000 persons in the US)1 and is an event of interest in patients receiving biologic DMARDs. Large healthcare claims databases are useful in assessing rare events, but confirmation of TB in the absence of a positive...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Annals of the rheumatic diseases 2015-06, Vol.74 (Suppl 2), p.1055-1055
Hauptverfasser:	Baker, N., Suissa, S., Kawabata, H., Skovron, M., Moorthy, V., Simon, T.A.
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Sprache:	eng
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