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Response to the commentary Pooled indices to measure rheumatoid arthritis activity a good reflection of the physicians mind 英文参考文献

Available online /content/8/6/406 Letter Response to the commentary ‘Pooled indices to measure rheumatoid arthritis activity: a good reflection of the physician’s mind’ Bert Vander Cruyssen1, Patrick Durez2, Rene Westhovens3, Nathan Vastesaeger4, Anja Geldhof5 and Filip De Keyser1 1Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium 2Rheumatology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium 3Rheumatology, University Hospitals KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium 4Medical affaires, Schering Plough, Brussels, Belgium 5Medical affaires, Centocor, Leiden, the Netherlands Corresponding author: Bert Vander Cruyssen, Bert.VanderCruyssen@Ugent.be Published: 10 October 2006 Arthritis Research Therapy 2006, 8:406 (doi:10.1186/ar2044) This article is online at /content/8/6/406 ? 2006 BioMed Central Ltd See related commentary by Aletaha, /content/8/1/102, related research article by Vander Cruyssen et al., /content/7/5/R1063, and related commentary by van Riel and Fransen, /content/7/5/189 The February issue of Arthritis Research Therapy included a commentary by Aletaha [1] on a recent report from our group [2]. A third issue highlighted by Aletaha [1] and by Van Riel and Fransen [3] is that in our study more than 50% of patients did not receive a dose increase, even though those patients had a DAS28 score greater than 3.2, indicating moderate or high First, Aletaha states that evaluation of the ‘physician’s mind’ is best performed in a study setting in which the physician is unaware that their clinical decision is part of the investigation. It should be noted that the analysis we reported [2] was a post hoc analysis on a cohort of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who began infliximab therapy within the context of an expanded access programme, and in which infliximab therapy was provided for free until reimbursement in 2002. In the initial protocol it was pre-specified that, from week 30 o