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Clinical Trials/ISRCTN72821021
ISRCTN72821021
Completed
Not Applicable

Quality management: improvement of patient care in recently diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis

niversity Medical Centre Utrecht (UMCU) (Netherlands)0 sites301 target enrollmentDecember 20, 2005

Overview

Phase
Not Applicable
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sponsor
niversity Medical Centre Utrecht (UMCU) (Netherlands)
Enrollment
301
Status
Completed
Last Updated
11 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
December 20, 2005
End Date
TBD
Last Updated
11 years ago
Study Type
Interventional
Sex
All

Investigators

Sponsor
niversity Medical Centre Utrecht (UMCU) (Netherlands)

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • 1\. RA, defined according to the revised American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for RA
  • 2\. A disease duration of less than 1 year, estimated by the rheumatologist
  • 3\. Aged greater than 16 years
  • 4\. No previous treatment with Disease Modifying Anti\-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARDs)
  • 5\. Written informed consent by the patient

Exclusion Criteria

  • 1\. Abnormal renal function (Cockroft less than 75 ml/min)
  • 2\. Abnormal liver function (Aspartate Aminotransferase \[ASAT]/Alanine Aminotransferase \[ALAT] greater than 2 x normal), active or recent hepatitis, cirrhosis
  • 3\. Major co\-morbidities like malignancies, severe diabetic mellitus, severe infections, severe cardio and/or respiratory diseases
  • 4\. Leukopenia and/or thrombocytopenia
  • 5\. Inadequate birth control conception, pregnancy, and/or breastfeeding
  • 6\. Chronic use of oral glucocorticoids
  • 7\. Treatment with cytoxic or immunosuppressive drugs within a period of 3 months prior to the study
  • 8\. Alcohol intake greater than 2 units per day or drug abuse, presently or in the past
  • 9\. Psychiatric or mental disorders which makes adherence to the study protocol impossible
  • 10\. Taking part into another clinical trial

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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