Tight control in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis: Efficacy and feasibility

M. F. Bakker; J. W G Jacobs; S. M M Verstappen; J. W J Bijlsma

doi:10.1136/ard.2007.078360

Tight control in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis: Efficacy and feasibility

M. F. Bakker
, J. W G Jacobs
, S. M M Verstappen
, J. W J Bijlsma

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Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the available evidence on the efficacy and feasibility of the new concept of tight control in randomised trials in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Tight control is a treatment strategy tailored to the individual patient with RA, which aims to achieve a predefined level of low disease activity or remission within a certain period of time. Methods: The literature database PubMed was searched and yielded four trials: the FIN-RACo trial, the TICORA study, the BeSt study and the CAMERA study. Results: Tight control resulted in greater improvement and a higher percentage of patients meeting the preset aim of low disease activity or remission when compared to the control intervention. In the FIN-RACo trial, aimed at DAS28

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	56-60
Number of pages	4
Journal	Annals of the rheumatic diseases
Volume	66
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/ard.2007.078360
Publication status	Published - Nov 2007

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