Doctors’ preferences in de-escalating DMARDs in rheumatoid arthritis: a discrete choice experiment

Table 3 Overall preference of doctors for de-escalation based on a conditional logit model

	Overall n = 156
	β	SE
Opt out¹ chosen	26%
Opt out¹	-2.96^***	0.11
DAS ≤ 3.2²	-0.98^***	0.07
Swollen joint count
1³	-1.15^***	0.08
2³	-1.68^***	0.09
Patient history
Erosive disease⁴	-0.69^***	0.11
Remission difficult⁴	-0.80^***	0.09
Erosive + remission difficult⁴	-1.64^***	0.10
Remission duration 6 months⁵	-0.52^***	0.06
Patient not willing to de-escalate at start of visit⁶	-1.09^***	0.07

β beta coefficient, SE standard error, DAS Disease Activity Score
^*** p < 0.001
¹This option was included in case a rheumatologist did not want to de-escalate DMARDs in either of the patients presented in a pair
²Reference DAS < 2.6
³Reference no swollen joints
⁴Reference easy remission and no erosions
⁵Reference remission duration 1 year
⁶Reference patient willing to de-escalate DMARDs at start of visit

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