The CEDAR Study: A Longitudinal Study of the Clinical Effects of Conventional DMARDs and Biologic DMARDs in Australian Rheumatology Practice

Table 2

Distribution of treatments in the total patient cohort ( = 12,526). Multiple occurrences of the same medication in one individual were counted once.

cDMARDs	(%)	bDMARDs	(%)
Patients with at least one treatment	11,511 (91.9%)	Patients with at least one treatment	3,697 (29.5%)
Methotrexate	9,508 (75.9%)	Etanercept	1,545 (12.3%)
Hydroxychloroquine	3,527 (28.2%)	Adalimumab	1,329 (10.6%)
Leflunomide	3,275 (26.1%)	Tocilizumab	618 (4.9%)
Sulfasalazine	2,340 (18.7%)	Abatacept	481 (3.8%)
Sodium aurothiomalate	114 (0.9%)	Golimumab	376 (3.0%)
Azathioprine	98 (0.8%)	Rituximab	339 (2.7%)
Cyclosporine	89 (0.7%)	Certolizumab pegol	273 (2.2%)
Auranofin	43 (0.3%)	Infliximab	68 (0.5%)
Penicillamine	28 (0.2%)	Anakinra	3 (<1.0%)
Cyclophosphamide	10 (0.1%)