The effect of oral immunomodulatory therapy on treatment uptake and persistence in multiple sclerosis
Author(s) -
Matthew WarrenderSparkes,
Tim Spelman,
Guillermo Izquierdo,
Maria Trojano,
Alessandra Lugaresi,
François Grand’Maison,
Eva Havrdová,
Dana Horáková,
Cavit Boz,
Celia OrejaGuevara,
Raed Alroughani,
Gerardo Iuliano,
Pierre Duquette,
Marc Girard,
Murat Terzi,
Raymond Hupperts,
Pierre Grammond,
Thor Petersen,
Ricardo FernándezBolaños,
Marcela Fiol,
Eugenio Pucci,
Jeannette LechnerScott,
Freek Verheul,
Edgardo Cristiano,
Vincent Van Pesch,
Tatjana PetkovskaBoskova,
Fraser Moore,
Ilya Kister,
Roberto Bergamaschi,
María Laura Saladino,
Mark Slee,
Michael Barnett,
Maria Pia Amato,
Cameron Shaw,
Neil Shuey,
Carolyn Young,
Orla Gray,
Ludwig Kappos,
Helmut Butzkueven,
Tomáš Kalinčík,
Vilija Jokubaitis
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
multiple sclerosis journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.729
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1477-0970
pISSN - 1352-4585
DOI - 10.1177/1352458515594041
Subject(s) - fingolimod , medicine , discontinuation , multiple sclerosis , hazard ratio , persistence (discontinuity) , expanded disability status scale , natalizumab , observational study , physical therapy , confidence interval , immunology , geotechnical engineering , engineering
We aimed to analyse the effect of the introduction of fingolimod, the first oral disease-modifying therapy, on treatment utilisation and persistence in an international cohort of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).
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