Abstract
Background The current recommendations for early Rheumatoid Arthritis (eRA) management focus on achieving clinical remission as soon as possible with an early and intensive treatment. Understanding patients’ experiences and ideas regarding their treatment could make healthcare professionals (HPs) more aware of and timely responsive to patients’ preferences, which might result in a better treatment adherence, an improved health status and higher satisfaction with care.
Highlights
The current recommendations for early Rheumatoid Arthritis management focus on achieving clinical remission as soon as possible with an early and intensive treatment
Patients expressed preoccupations and feelings about intensive combination treatment strategies (ICTS) that changed between both time points, such as fear of side effects at time point 1 (TP1) that diminished at time point 2 (TP2)
The need for additional information differed among individual patients and shifted from TP1 to TP2
Summary
The current recommendations for early Rheumatoid Arthritis (eRA) management focus on achieving clinical remission as soon as possible with an early and intensive treatment. Understanding patients’ experiences and ideas regarding their treatment could make healthcare professionals (HPs) more aware of and timely responsive to patients’ preferences, which might result in a better treatment adherence, an improved health status and higher satisfaction with care
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