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- Bruno Fautrel and Cécile Gaujoux-Viala.
- Université Paris 6-Pierre & Marie Curie-GRC-08-EEMOIS, Rhumatologie, AP-HP, Groupe hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris cedex 13. bruno.fautrel@psl.aphp.fr
- B Acad Nat Med Paris. 2012 Oct 1; 196 (7): 1295-305; discussion 1305-6.
AbstractRheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic disabling disease that induces substantial costs in terms of healthcare resources (direct costs) and lost productivity (indirect costs). The main cost drivers used to be disability and hospitalization. Recently, however, the cost of new and expensive therapies has exceeded that of hospitalization. These effective treatments have lowered RA-related use of healthcare resources, especially totaljoint replacement, as well as sick leave. In contrast, they have not yet been shown to reduce the number of patients who become disabled, and their cost-effectiveness ratio thus tends to be unfavorable.
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