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A systematic review of the effectiveness of adalimumab

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A <strong>systematic</strong> <strong>review</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>effectiveness</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>adalimumab</strong>, etanercept and<br />

infliximab for <strong>the</strong> treatment <strong>of</strong><br />

rheumatoid arthritis in adults and<br />

an economic evaluation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

cost-<strong>effectiveness</strong><br />

Y-F Chen, 1 P Jobanputra, 2 P Barton, 3 S Jowett, 3<br />

S Bryan, 3 W Clark, 1 A Fry-Smith 1 and A Burls 1*<br />

1<br />

West Midlands Health Technology Assessment Collaboration (WMHTAC),<br />

Department <strong>of</strong> Public Health and Epidemiology, University <strong>of</strong><br />

Birmingham, UK<br />

2<br />

Department <strong>of</strong> Rheumatology, Selly Oak Hospital, University Hospitals<br />

Birmingham NHS Trust, Birmingham, UK<br />

3<br />

Health Economics Facility, Health Services Management Centre,<br />

University <strong>of</strong> Birmingham, UK<br />

* Corresponding author<br />

Declared competing interests <strong>of</strong> authors: P Jobanputra is a Consultant Rheumatologist<br />

and a member <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> British Society for Rheumatology. He has received funding for<br />

educational purposes from Abbott and Wyeth and has been entertained by manufacturers<br />

<strong>of</strong> all three TNF inhibitors. He has been involved in research studies <strong>of</strong> <strong>adalimumab</strong> and<br />

etanercept for rheumatoid arthritis and his department has received funding from Wyeth<br />

and Abbott for <strong>the</strong>se studies.<br />

Published November 2006<br />

This report should be referenced as follows:<br />

Chen Y-F, Jobanputra P, Barton P, Jowett S, Bryan S, Clark W, et al. A <strong>systematic</strong> <strong>review</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> <strong>effectiveness</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>adalimumab</strong>, etanercept and infliximab for <strong>the</strong> treatment <strong>of</strong><br />

rheumatoid arthritis in adults and an economic evaluation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir cost-<strong>effectiveness</strong>.<br />

Health Technol Assess 2006;10(42).<br />

Health Technology Assessment is indexed and abstracted in Index Medicus/MEDLINE,<br />

Excerpta Medica/EMBASE and Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch ® ) and<br />

Current Contents ® /Clinical Medicine.

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