2014;9:e96407. Most guidelines did not make specific recommendations about using one class of biologics preferentially. The overall impact of the guidelines is difficult to establish. Boers M, Tugwell P, Felson DT, van Riel PL, Kirwan JR, Edmonds JP, Smolen JS, Khaltaev N, Muirden KD. BMJ. Article  Eleven guidelines also covered diagnosis [16, 18, 23, 25,26,27, 29,30,31,32] and 13 covered some or many non-drug treatments [16,17,18,19,20, 23, 27, 29,30,31,32, 35]. Baillieres Clin Rheumatol. In addition many guidelines emphasised the importance of minimising disability, minimising progressive joint damage and maximising quality of life, though these were less explicit management goals. Mok CC, Tam LS, Chan TH, Lee GK, Li EK, Hong Kong Society of Rheumatology. Our analysis shows several things. 2005;32:2410–5. Recommendations were developed by panelists using the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) methodology to assess available evidence from current scientific literature. Refer urgently (even with a normal acute-phase response, negative anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide [CCP] antibodies or rheumatoid factor) if any of the following apply: 1.1. the small joints of the hands or feet ar… Rheumatoid arthritis: biologics in second-line therapy show benefit Positive effects for all drugs / long-term data and robust direct comparisons are lacking The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care ( IQWiG ) examined 9 biotechnologically produced drugs for the treatment of adults with rheumatoid arthritis in whom prior pharmacological treatment had failed. SOURCES: Arthritis Foundation: “Biologics Overview,” “Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment,” “Biosimilars: What You Should Know.” FDA: “FDA’s Overview of the Regulatory Guidelines … PubMed Central  Other experts may have considered different aspects of the guidelines in more detail and overlooked some of the matters we have dealt with. 1992;26:76–82. J Rheumatol Suppl. Adalimumab, etanercept, inflfliximab, certolizumab pegol, golimumab, tocilizumab and abatacept for rheumatoid arthritis not previously treated with DMARDs or after conventional DMARDs only have failed. As the various updates of ACR and EULAR guidelines have high citation rates on bibliometric systems it seems likely they are used by many groups. Liberati A, Altman DG, Tetzlaff J, Mulrow C, Gøtzsche PC, Ioannidis JP, Clarke M, Devereaux PJ, Kleijnen J, Moher D. The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate healthcare interventions: explanation and elaboration. January 2016. www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ta375. Wolfe F, Michaud K, Pincus T. A composite disease activity scale for clinical practice, observational studies, and clinical trials: the patient activity scale (PAS/PAS-II). In doing so, the ACR offers education, research, advocacy and practice management support to help its members continue their innovative work and provide quality patient care. Newswise gives journalists access to the latest news and provides a platform for New Rheumatoid Arthritis Guideline Emphasizes Maximizing Methotrexate and Biologics, Minimizing Steroids 6-Nov-2020 9:00 AM EST , by American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Edit Institution Eight other guide guidelines included some systematic reviews [15,16,17, 21, 24, 28, 30, 32, 35, 38] within them, including systematically assessing other guidelines, and one other guideline formally used existing published systematic reviews to assess each question they considered [30]. All these 16 guidelines recommended using anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPA); 14 guidelines recommended using rheumatoid factor (RF) [15,16,17, 21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28, 31,32,33]; 15 guidelines recommended using x-ray erosion [15, 16, 21,22,23,24,25,26,27, 31,32,33, 35]; and 9 guidelines recommended using high disability or extra-articular disease [21, 25,26,27,28, 31,32,33, 35]. People should also have rapid access to specialist care if their condition suddenly worsens. Scott D. Guidelines for arthritis: ten years on. 2017;76:e48. The ACR guideline recommended annual assessments of function. We consider that applying these general principles to RA management in all clinical settings is likely to achieve good overall clinical outcomes. Lau CS, Chia F, Harrison A, Hsieh TY, Jain R, Jung SM, Kishimoto M, Kumar A, Leong KP, Li Z, Lichauco JJ, Louthrenoo W, Luo SF, Nash P, Ng CT, Park SH, Suryana BP, Suwannalai P, Wijaya LK, Yamamoto K, Yang Y, Yeap SS, Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology. Rheumatologists are experts in the diagnosis, management and treatment of more than 100 different types of arthritis and rheumatic diseases. The limitations of clinical guidelines have been described in detail [49,50,51,52]. ACR Convergence, the ACR’s annual meeting, is where rheumatology meets to collaborate, celebrate, congregate, and learn. Overall, rheumatoid arthritis patients have a higher ratio for developing infections than patients that don’t have rheumatoid arthritis. 2013;185:465–7. Watine J, Wils J, Augereau C. Clinical practice guidelines: potential misconceptions of the GRADE approach. As a consequence of these assessments we sought to provide insights into the value and relevance of different guidelines. Joint working group of the BSR and Research unit of the RCP. Canadian rheumatology association recommendations for pharmacological management of rheumatoid arthritis with traditional and biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs. Ann Rheum Dis. Twenty guidelines recommended remission as a treatment target and 16 guidelines recommended using low disease activity as an alternative target (Table 2). EULAR guidelines recommend that methotrexate should be part of the first treatment strategy. Article  Ramiro S, Sepriano A, Chatzidionysiou K, Nam JL, Smolen JS, van der Heijde D, Dougados M, van Vollenhoven R, Bijlsma JW, Burmester GR, Scholte-Voshaar M, Falzon L, Landewé RBM. Biologics 'My Story Animation' Biologics Animation created by Pfizer. There were variable levels of patient involvement; 12/22 guidelines specified there was patient involvement [14,15,16, 19,20,21,22,23,24, 31, 34]. Others may take weeks or months to tak… A recommendation to minimize the use of glucocorticoids, or steroids, to treat rheumatoid arthritis inflammation, due to the serious side effects associated with these drugs. Ann Rheum Dis. 2016;34(5 Suppl 101):S45–8. Many guidelines for managing RA have been published over recent years; many of them have been updated to take into account new treatments and novel research evidence about existing treatments. An example of a guideline with a broad audience is English (Royal College of Physicians) guidance [29] which spanned all healthcare professionals, people with RA and their carers, patient support groups, commissioning organisations and service providers. They are too diverse in their approaches to allow any synthesis of their various conclusions and recommendations. “Patients with RA were involved at every step of the process and these recommendations truly reflect their perspectives. We have systematically reviewed current RA guidelines. Recommendations of the French society for rheumatology for managing rheumatoid arthritis. Accessed Aug 2018. Google Scholar. Sulfasalzine, leflunomide and hydroxychloroquine were all considered potentially appropriate; there was no consistent pattern in these recommendations. The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) will preview its 2020 Guideline for the Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) at ACR Convergence, the ACR's annual meeting. This has been a clinical project PubMed Central  Google Scholar. Patients should be assessed for co-morbidities as these may influence biologic choice, including evaluation for respiratory disease and screening for infection (grade 1C, SOA 99%). PubMed  Fleming PS, Koletsi D, Pandis N. Blinded by PRISMA: are systematic reviewers focusing on PRISMA and ignoring other guidelines? They gave variable details of exactly how this should be achieved. Clin Med (Lond). CAS  We included guidelines providing recommendations on general RA management spanning a range of treatments and published in English. Twenty one guidelines dealt with the management of early RA; all of these recommended starting conventional DMARDs as soon as possible after diagnosis. They provide explicit recommendations to influence practice through a formal process of disseminating advice on effective management. Two guidelines recommend aiming to suppress inflammation: the British Columbia guideline [18] concluded that the objective of treatment is to “suppress all inflammation”, implying this is joint inflammation; the British Society For Rheumatology established RA guideline [19] recommended “suppressing inflammation” indicating this was to limit disease progression. Thirdly, we have only provided a narrative assessment of them. 2015 American College of Rheumatology Guideline for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. RA commonly causes pain and swelling in the wrist and small joints of the hand and feet but can affect almost all joints. These statements were so diverse that it is not possible to provide a succinct summary of them. BMC Med Res Methodol. Other guidance including the ACR guidance is more definite it is perspective. Methotrexate, which is often described as the “anchor” drug for RA, was recommended for most patients in 19/22 guidelines [14,15,16,17, 20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29, 31,32,33,34,35] (Table 4). BMC Med Res Methodol. Aneela Mian. Indian J Rheumatol. Groups of expert rheumatologists were reported as drawing up 21/22 guidelines; the only exception was the British Columbia guidelines, which did not specify who was involved in their construction [18]. 2018;8:e018791. 2016;34(5 Suppl 101):S40–4. 2008;3(Suppl):S1–S16. Cite this article. Rev Bras Reumatol. BMJ. These are summarised in Table 1. Twenty recommended targeting remission; 16 suggested low disease activity as alternative. #### Case scenario A 45 year old woman had seropositive erosive rheumatoid arthritis diagnosed three years ago with involvement of the hands, wrists, shoulders, and feet. Does intensive management improve remission rates in patients with intermediate rheumatoid arthritis? For example EULAR guidelines recommend assessing patients every 1 to 3 months, at least in the early stages of their RA. 2006;45:1167–9. Article  Two guidelines recommended other assessments – the Patient Activity Scale (PAS) [42] and Routine Assessment Of Patient Data Index (RAPID3) [43]. A total of 42 638 RA patients initiating a bDMARD treatment were included ().Initiators of non-TNFi biologics were generally older than TNFi-initiators, with the highest age at start for rituximab, especially in Sweden and Finland ().Overall, among the bDMARD initiators in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, 344/11 230=3%, 288/4766=6%, 56/1876=3% and 1703/24 766=6.9%, respectively, had … Our exclusion criteria comprised: (a) guidelines and appraisals that dealt with specific areas of management, such as safety monitoring of drugs; (b) guidelines or appraisals of single drugs or technologies. California Privacy Statement, 2014;34:1–9. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common type of chronic inflammatory arthritis. Etanercept (Enbrel) By Professor Robert J Moots Last Reviewed: 09/09/2013. It is likely guidelines achieve this goal more globally, and the appearance of many guidelines reflects the major changes in drug therapy for RA in recent years. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. Firstly, there guideline development should conform with one of the published quality standards; whilst there is no reason to prefer one standard over another, it seems worthwhile to adopt one of them. Many others focus on single drugs or treatment modalities including surgery. However, EULAR did not exclude their use, and mention them briefly. Refer for specialist opinion any adult with suspected persistent synovitis of undetermined cause. Five guidelines made no recommendations about treating moderate disease. She found it difficult to dress, cook, do the housework, and control her dog on her morning walk. As PRISMA does not specifically include systematic reviews of guidelines we did not pre-register our protocol; this was omitted in other systematic reviews of guidelines [12]. http://www.g-i-n.net/.Accessed 25 Mar 2018. Consequently multiple guidelines appear to be needed. All guidelines recommend treating active RA; 13 made recommendations for moderate disease. However, the optimal approach for tapering therapy in RA, … AM, FI and DLS analysed the final guidelines included. In part it may be presentational; EULAR guidance does not exclude using such combinations and ACR guidance does not explicitly recommend them; consequently much of the apparent difference may represent the way in which the information is presented. Bahtsevani C, Udén G, Willman A. Outcomes of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines: a systematic review. Guidelines for the drug treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Int J Technol Assess Health Care. BMC Rheumatology Secondly, guidelines should incorporate divergent views, when there is no universally agreed answer. Luqmani R, Hennell S, Estrach C, Basher D, Birrell F, Bosworth A, Burke F, Callaghan C, Candal-Couto J, Fokke C, Goodson N, Homer D, Jackman J, Jeffreson P, Oliver S, Reed M, Sanz L, Stableford Z, Taylor P, Todd N, Warburton L, Washbrook C, Wilkinson M, British Society for Rheumatology, British Health Professionals in Rheumatology Standards, Guidelines and Audit Working Group. AM and DLS conducted the literature search and screening and selection for relevant guidelines. Arthritis Care Res. PubMed Central  Secondly disease activity should be regularly monitored using composite indices such as DAS28, which relates to our initial aim which was our initial specific question. There were 6 guidelines which did not give any criteria for assessing the presence of remission. Rheumatoid arthritis: national clinical guideline for management and treatment in adults. First Latin American position paper on the pharmacological treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) is an international medical society representing over 7,700 rheumatologists and rheumatology health professionals with a mission to empower rheumatology professionals to excel in their specialty. 2017;18:591. Cookies policy. Eight guidelines recommended considering tapering biologic treatment in patients who had achieved sustained good responses and remissions. Not all experts would necessarily agree with our approach to inclusion. Access to Biologics in UK HoUng Kim (Head of Strategy and Operation Division, Celltrion Healthcare) Session 2. J Clin Epidemiol. Background: We systematically reviewed current guidelines for managing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to evaluate their range and nature, assess variations in their recommendations and highlight divergence in their perspectives. We also followed methods recommended for reviews of systematic reviews [11] and approaches taken in previous systematic reviews of guidelines [12, 13]. 2011;30:303–12. Clinical guidelines: potential benefits, limitations, and harms of clinical guidelines. The other 9/22 guidelines focused on different themes or areas [15, 18, 20, 26, 27, 30,31,32,33] which incorporated a number of related issues; the average number was 6 (range 3–12). 2013;53:158–83. 2012;39:1559–82. BMJ. Second, why are there different guidelines dealing with the same issue – how best to treat RA? Live - Three dealt with early RA, one established RA and 18 all patients. medwireNews: “The Great Debate” of the ACR Convergence 2020 virtual meeting addressed the question of whether Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors should be given before biologics following an inadequate response to methotrexate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).. Management of rheumatoid arthritis: consensus recommendations from the Hong Kong society of rheumatology. Specific Combinations of conventional DMARDS were recommended by 12/22 guidelines [14, 15, 17, 21, 23,24,25,26,27,28, 31, 33]: these combinations comprised methotrexate with sulfasalazine and hydroxychloroquine or methotrexate with leflunomide in 9 guidelines; 2 guidelines omitted leflunomide from combinations [23, 33] and one guideline recommended chloroquine instead of hydroxychloroquine [31]. Rheumatol Int. At its annual meeting, the American College of Rheumatology previewed updates to guidelines for the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Introduction The pathway is to be used as a guideline for the use of high cost drugs in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Other guidelines included broader ranges of medical specialists and other health care professionals involved in the management of RA. Most guidelines recommend regular assessments based on the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology core dataset; 18 recommended the disease activity score for 28 joints. They are usually recommended to be used in combination with methotrexate. 2018;18:143. 2016;75:16–22. This guideline is a living document. Event in Progress, Newswise Article  Fifthly remission or low disease activity is a suitable target and that treatment can be tapered in patients who have achieved sustained remissions. In addition some guidelines gave advice about the role of glucocorticoids (steroids) in specific clinical settings, particularly in the management of some comorbidities. August 2009. https://www.racgp.org.au/your-practice/guidelines/musculoskeletal/rheumatoidarthritis/. Clin Rheumatol. Mian, A., Ibrahim, F. & Scott, D.L. Those guidelines which consider the use of NSAIDs invariably focus on minimising exposure to these treatments. Ann Rheum Dis. The frequency of review will reflect the timing of new clinical information. Clin Exp Rheumatol. Firstly DMARDs should be started as soon as possible after the diagnosis has been established. Our overview of 22 different RA management guidelines shows that several general principles transcend the majority of them. Event in Pincus T, Furer V, Keystone E, Yazici Y, Bergman MJ, Luijtens K. RAPID3 (routine assessment of patient index data 3) severity categories and response criteria: similar results to DAS28 (disease activity score) and CDAI (clinical disease activity index) in the RAPID 1 (rheumatoid Arthritis prevention of structural damage) clinical trial of certolizumab pegol. Guidelines can help minimise unnecessary care. Finally, what guidelines will be needed in future years? Therefore comparisons need to take this into account. Information technology concerning SDAI and CDAI. Rheumatology. 1999;318:527–30. Remission was defined in various ways, in keeping with current international criteria [45]. Google Scholar. Smolen JS, Landewé RBM, van der Heijde D. Response to: ‘2016 update of the EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis: no utopia for patients in low/middle-income countries?’ by Misra et al. Clinical guideline for the diagnosis and management of early rheumatoid arthritis. Albrecht K, Krüger K, Wollenhaupt J, Alten R, Backhaus M, Baerwald C, Bolten W, Braun J, Burkhardt H, Burmester GR, Gaubitz M, Gause A, Gromnica-Ihle E, Kellner H, Kuipers J, Krause A, Lorenz HM, Manger B, Nüßlein H, Pott HG, Rubbert-Roth A, Schneider M, Specker C, Schulze-Koops H, Tony HP, Wassenberg S, Müller-Ladner U, German Society of Rheumatology. It aims to improve quality of life by ensuring that people with rheumatoid arthritis have the right treatment to slow the progression of their condition and control their symptoms. Some guidelines gave relatively specific suggestions. World Health Organization and International League of Associations for Rheumatology core endpoints for symptom modifying antirheumatic drugs in rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials. Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. 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Rheumatoid Arthritis: Biologics, Clinical Need and NICE Dr. Ben Parker (Consultant Rheumatologist, Kellgren Centre for Rheumatology, Manchester Royal Infirmary, NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester https://doi.org/10.1136/BMJ.B2535. http://www.gradeworkinggroup.org. Looking back at the earliest guidelines from the 1990s [1,2,3] shows just how much clinical practice has changed over the years, indicating the need for guidance to be updated. Joint Bone Spine. The guidelines differ in the formality of their approach and in the extent of systematic reviews commissioned specifically for them. The English (Royal College of Physicians) guideline [29] commissioned detailed systematic reviews for each question which were published within the guideline itself. In most cases, they are prescribed when conventional DMARDs have not worked. The data included: (a) year of publication; (b) format (who was involved); (c) quality method followed; (d) systematic review of evidence; (e) patient groups considered; (f) area of management included; (g) composite activity assessments; (h) prognostic assessments; (i) treatment targets; (j) and range of treatments considered. Int J Rheum Dis. Smolen JS, Landewé R, Bijlsma J, Burmester G, Chatzidionysiou K, Dougados M, Nam J, Ramiro S, Voshaar M, van Vollenhoven R, Aletaha D, Aringer M, Boers M, Buckley CD, Buttgereit F, Bykerk V, Cardiel M, Combe B, Cutolo M, van Eijk-Hustings Y, Emery P, Finckh A, Gabay C, Gomez-Reino J, Gossec L, Gottenberg JE, JMW H, Huizinga T, Jani M, Karateev D, Kouloumas M, Kvien T, Li Z, Mariette X, McInnes I, Mysler E, Nash P, Pavelka K, Poór G, Richez C, van Riel P, Rubbert-Roth A, Saag K, da Silva J, Stamm T, Takeuchi T, Westhovens R, de Wit M, van der Heijde D. EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis with synthetic and biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: 2016 update. They were recommended when patients failed to respond fully to DMARD monotherapy and that biologics were not necessarily indicated. Some of these guidelines had specific structures which were replicated across questions; for example the Canadian guideline [21] for each question included the recommendation, the supporting evidence and the barriers to implementation. The updated BSR guidelines in 2005 did not consider t… Article  Correspondence to A further two guidelines implied this was appropriate without giving detailed recommendations. Article  While these recommendations focus solely on drug treatments for RA, future ACR guidelines will include non-drug therapies and vaccines. Interestingly, recent guidance from NICE in a multiple technology appraisal (a type of assessment we excluded from this systematic review) recommended only starting biologics in patients with disease that had not responded to intensive therapy with a combination of conventional DMARDs [48]. Other rarely used conventional DMARDs, such as azathioprine, though not excluded were not specifically recommended. Article  Thirdly methotrexate is the best initial treatment, and that this can be usefully supplemented with short-term glucocorticoid (steroid) therapy. Hodkinson B, Van Duuren E, Pettipher C, Kalla A, South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association. This principle relates to our final specific question. 2011;70:404–13. PubMed Central  However, the balance of opinion in these various guidelines favours the use of combinations of conventional DMARDs in some patients. Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disorder in which a person’s immune system attacks the body’s tissues. Mota LM, Cruz BA, Brenol CV, Pereira IA, Rezende-Fronza LS, Bertolo MB, Freitas MV, Silva NA, Louzada-Junior P, Giorgi RD, Lima RA, Bernardo WM, Pinheiro Gda R, Sociedade Brasileira de Reumatologia. On behalf of TITRATE Programme Investigators. 2009;48:436–9. https://www.agreetrust.org. Non è possibile visualizzare una descrizione perché il sito non lo consente. All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article. Smolen JS, Breedveld FC, Burmester GR, Bykerk V, Dougados M, Emery P, Kvien TK, Navarro-Compán MV, Oliver S, Schoels M, Scholte-Voshaar M, Stamm T, Stoffer M, Takeuchi T, Aletaha D, Andreu JL, Aringer M, Bergman M, Betteridge N, Bijlsma H, Burkhardt H, Cardiel M, Combe B, Durez P, Fonseca JE, Gibofsky A, Gomez-Reino JJ, Graninger W, Hannonen P, Haraoui B, Kouloumas M, Landewe R, Martin-Mola E, Nash P, Ostergaard M, Östör A, Richards P, Sokka-Isler T, Thorne C, Tzioufas AG, van Vollenhoven R, de Wit M, van der Heijde D. 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