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Correction to: Drug tolerability and reasons for discontinuation of seven biologics in 4466 treatment courses of rheumatoid arthritis—the ANSWER cohort study

The Original Article was published on 11 April 2019

Correction to: Arthritis Res Ther

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13075-019-1880-4

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors noticed that two corrections were not implemented during the production process. The original article [1] has been corrected.

In Fig. 1b, the heading should read: Adjusted survival due to lack of effectiveness

In Fig. 2b, the heading should read: Adjusted survival due to toxic adverse events

In addition, the authors would like to update the legends of Figure 1, 2, 3 and 4 to the following:

Fig. 1 Drug survival rates due to lack of effectiveness in a non-adjusted cases and b adjusted cases. Adjusted confounders were baseline sex, age, disease duration, concomitant prednisolone and methotrexate, and number of previously used bDMARDs. ABT = abatacept, ADA = adalimumab, CZP = certolizumab pegol, ETN = etanercept, GLM = golimumab, IFX = infliximab, TCZ = tocilizumab, bDMARDs = biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs

Fig. 2 Drug survival rates due to toxic adverse events in a non-adjusted cases and b adjusted cases. Adjusted confounders were baseline sex, age, disease duration, concomitant prednisolone and methotrexate, and number of previously used bDMARDs. ABT = abatacept, ADA = adalimumab, CZP = certolizumab pegol, ETN = etanercept, GLM = golimumab, IFX = infliximab, TCZ = tocilizumab, bDMARDs = biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs

Fig. 3 Drug survival rates due to remission in a non-adjusted cases and b adjusted cases. Adjusted confounders were baseline sex, age, disease duration, concomitant prednisolone and methotrexate, and number of previously used bDMARDs. ABT = abatacept, ADA = adalimumab, CZP = certolizumab pegol, ETN = etanercept, GLM = golimumab, IFX = infliximab, TCZ = tocilizumab, bDMARDs = biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs

Fig. 4 Overall drug survival rates (excluding non-toxic reasons and remission) in a non-adjusted cases and b adjusted cases. Adjusted confounders were baseline sex, age, disease duration, concomitant prednisolone and methotrexate, and number of previously used bDMARDs. ABT = abatacept, ADA = adalimumab, CZP = certolizumab pegol, ETN = etanercept, GLM = golimumab, IFX = infliximab, TCZ = tocilizumab, bDMARDs = biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs

The publishers apologise for the errors. The corrected figures are given below:

Fig. 1
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Drug survival rates due to lack of effectiveness in a non-adjusted cases and b adjusted cases. Adjusted confounders were baseline sex, age, disease duration, concomitant prednisolone and methotrexate, and number of previously used bDMARDs. ABT = abatacept, ADA = adalimumab, CZP = certolizumab pegol, ETN = etanercept, GLM = golimumab, IFX = infliximab, TCZ = tocilizumab, bDMARDs = biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs

Fig. 2
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Drug survival rates due to toxic adverse events in a non-adjusted cases and b adjusted cases. Adjusted confounders were baseline sex, age, disease duration, concomitant prednisolone and methotrexate, and number of previously used bDMARDs. ABT = abatacept, ADA = adalimumab, CZP = certolizumab pegol, ETN = etanercept, GLM = golimumab, IFX = infliximab, TCZ = tocilizumab, bDMARDs = biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs

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  1. Ebina, et al. Drug tolerability and reasons for discontinuation of seven biologics in 4466 treatment courses of rheumatoid arthritis—the ANSWER cohort study. Arthritis Res Ther. 2019;21:91 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13075-019-1880-4.

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Ebina, K., Hashimoto, M., Yamamoto, W. et al. Correction to: Drug tolerability and reasons for discontinuation of seven biologics in 4466 treatment courses of rheumatoid arthritis—the ANSWER cohort study. Arthritis Res Ther 21, 114 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13075-019-1897-8

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