Browsing Faculty of Health Sciences by Subject "Rheumatoid arthritis"

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Antirheumatic medicine prescribing patterns and direct medicine costs in the South African private health sector

Olivier, Nericke; Lubbe, Martie; Joubert, Rianda; Naudé, Adele; Burger, Johanita (Elsevier, 2018)

Objectives To describe antirheumatic medicine prescribing patterns and to estimate the total annual direct medicine cost of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the private health sector of South Africa. Methods A retrospective, ...
Chronic disease list conditions in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in the private healthcare sector of South Africa

Olivier, Nericke; Burger, Johanita; Joubert, Rianda; Lubbe, Martie; Naudé, Adele; Cockeran, Marike (Springer, 2018)

Introduction Little is known about the burden of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in South Africa. The aim of this study was to establish the prevalence of RA and coexisting chronic disease list (CDL) conditions in the private ...