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etanercept (ETA); and golimumab (GLM). Methods. □ Adult patients (≥18 years) in the Optum Insight Clinformatics dataset were selected if they had claims.
Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Patients Before Enrolling on Adalimumab, Etanercept or Golimumab L.A. Ellis, R. Meyer, S.C. Bolge, J. Tkacz, P. Kardel, C. Ruetsch 1

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Real-world studies of drug utilization among rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients treated with biologic agents may be confounded with differences in clinical, demographic, socioeconomic, or behavioral characteristics When large claims databases are used for comparative effectiveness research (CER), non-random treatment selection may bias CER Understanding differences in baseline patient characteristics may aid in the design or interpretation of CER studies

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This study aims to describe key demographic and clinical differences observed between patients treated with subcutaneous anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) biologic medications: adalimumab (ADA); etanercept (ETA); and golimumab (GLM)

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Adult patients (≥18 years) in the Optum Insight Clinformatics dataset were selected if they had claims for ≥60 days supply of their assigned biologic medication, ≥2 claims with an RA diagnosis (ICD-9: 714.xx), and ≥24 months of continuous medical and pharmacy eligibility

ADA n=2,222

ETA n=3,168

GLM n=347

Omnibus Test

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Female

75.2%

74.6%

81.3%

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