Identifying factors associated with concordance with the American College of Rheumatology rheumatoid arthritis treatment recommendations

Table 1 Evaluation of treatment approaches in comparison with ACR treatment recommendation

First visit			Second visit
Disease activity^a	Treatment acceleration	Consistent with recommendations^b	Disease activity	Treatment acceleration	Consistent with recommendations^c
Active	Yes	Yes	Active	Yes or no	Yes
Active	Yes	Yes	Not active	Yes or no	Yes
Active	No	No	Active	Yes	Yes
			Active	No	No
			Not active	Yes or no	Yes

^aActive disease is moderate disease activity with poor prognosis (modified Health Assessment Questionnaire >0.5, presence of rheumatoid nodules, erosive changes on x-ray, rheumatoid factor-positive, and secondary Sjögren’s syndrome) or high disease activity in the methotrexate monotherapy users and moderate or high disease activity in the multiple nonbiologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug users
^bCompliant with the recommendations in the cross-sectional analysis
^cCompliant with the recommendations over the first and second visits in the longitudinal analysis

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