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Filter by:Background : Inflammatory arthritis (rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or spondyloarthritis (SpA) are painful chronic diseases which impair quality of life and work capacity. Biologics are very effective and widely used therapies. However, they are known to entail risks, particularly of infections. The risk of severe infections is of 5%/patient-year with a maximum during the first six month after the initiation of the first biologic therapy. Patient education (PE) is recommended for the management of chronic diseases. In the case of biologics, PE aims to help patients to learn specific skills particularly on safety issues, e.g stopping the biologic treatment in case of fever or surgery. Safety skills are assessed by the validated BIOSECURE questionnaire. PE seems efficient for safety skills in a few non-randomized studies. In 2010 a national cross sectional survey on 677 patients showed that the risk of incorrect answers in the BIOSECURE questionnaire was 4 times lower among patients who had benefited from an education by a nurse or other kind of educational process (OR =3,8 IC95% :[1,68-8,8]. Aims and Hypothesis: this trial aims to investigate the effects of a nurse-led self-management education face to face intervention on safety skills of patients with arthritis treated par sub cutaneous biologics. Our hypothesis is that the intervention group will report better skills at the 6 months follow up compared to usual care i.e information by the rheumatologist in current consultation. Methods : multicentric randomized controlled open trial with blinded assessment of the primary outcome. The intervention group will have a nurse education consultation at M 0 and M3 in addition to the usual care by the rheumatologist. The nurse will assess the patients' health beliefs and educational needs, focusing on safety skills, self-injections and motivation. The control group will have usual care by the rheumatologist.
The objective of the study is to assess the single dose PK, safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of abatacept 125mg administered SC in Chinese healthy subjects.
Prospective, post-marketing, multi-center, open-label study to explore if the initiation of adalimumab could influence grey-scale (GS) and power Doppler (PD) ultrasonographic (US) score using 36-joint plus 4-tendon scoring system, and validate the applicability of different simplified US joint scoring systems.
The purpose of this observational follow-up study is to collect data systematically on pregnancies and offspring of women who become pregnant while participating in a Certolizumab Pegol (CZP) study or whose pregnancies have otherwise been reported to UCB due to potential CZP exposure during pregnancy.
The primary objective of this study is to demonstrate superior efficacy of abatacept 125mg administrated SC weekly comparing to placebo after 24 weeks treatment in Chinese subjects who have active rheumatoid arthritis, are receiving methotrexate and experiencing an inadequate response to methotrexate. This will be estimated by the proportion of subjects meeting the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for 20% improvement (ACR20).
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of multiple ascending intravenous doses of ASP5094 in male and female subjects with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) on methotrexate (MTX).
This is a Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) study. The purpose of this research study is to determine in RA flare, whether musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) inflammatory scores and/or disease activity scores improve with Acthar treatment.
An Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality executive summary indicated that better comparative effectiveness trial designs are needed to determine the relative merits of existing versus new and expensive biologic drug therapies for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). There are now 9 biologic therapies approved for treating RA. Four classes of biologics (TNF antagonists, B-cell inhibitors, T-cell co-stimulator blocker, and Interleukin-6 receptor blocker) are approved for use in RA patients with moderate or severe disease activity. Several critical questions have arisen, such as 1) what therapy should be prescribed after failure of methotrexate and/or other oral disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) to adequately control disease activity; 2) what is the level of efficacy of the various biologic therapies when compared in head-to-head trials; and 3) what are the mechanisms associated with failure of methotrexate and/or other oral DMARD therapy and responsiveness to biologic therapies. The MAZERATI study will provide the foundation for answering these questions and determining the mechanisms associated with these biologic therapies.
The primary objective of this study is to assess the safety and tolerability of a single dose of up to 800 mg in Part A (evaluated in planned steps of 5, 20, 50, 100, 200, 300 mg under fasted conditions, followed by 300, 400, 600 and 800 mg HMPL-523 under fed conditions of a standard meal, followed by multiple doses of 200, 300, 400 and 500 mg of HMPL-523 in Part B, in healthy male volunteers. The secondary objective is to determine the pharmacokinetic profile of single (Part A) and multiple (Part B) oral doses of HMPL-523 in healthy male volunteers and to determine the preliminary effect of food (Part C）
A prospective, multi-centric, cohort study to observe the efficacy difference between intensive classic DMARDs and Infliximab(IFX) with methotrexate(MTX) treatment in sever rheumatoid arthritis(RA) 28 joints disease activity score>5.1(DAS28>5.1) patients with poor prognostic factors.Primary objective is compare the difference of clinical remission rate between classic DMARDs and Infliximab with MTX treatment in severe RA patients with poor prognostic factors at week 30.