Biological drugs for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis by the subcutaneous route: interpreting efficacy data to assess statistical equivalence
Author(s) -
Andrea Messori,
Valeria Fadda,
Dario Maratea,
Sabrina Trippoli,
Roberta Gatto,
Mauro De Rosa,
Claudio Marinai
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.387
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1759-7218
pISSN - 1759-720X
DOI - 10.1177/1759720x14554792
Subject(s) - medicine , golimumab , adalimumab , tocilizumab , bioequivalence , rheumatoid arthritis , etanercept , equivalence (formal languages) , odds ratio , meta analysis , mathematics , pharmacokinetics , discrete mathematics
No equivalence analysis has yet been conducted on the effectiveness of biologics in rheumatoid arthritis. Equivalence testing has a specific scientific interest, but can also be useful for deciding whether acquisition tenders are feasible for the pharmacological agents being compared.
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