Health care utilisation before and after intensive care unit admission in rheumatoid arthritis.

CONCLUSIONS: Persons with RA who are admitted to the ICU have higher rates of health care utilisation in the year before ICU admission than those who are not admitted. Corticosteroid use is associated with an increased risk of ICU admission even after accounting for other health care utilisation. PMID: 28598781 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology - Category: Rheumatology Tags: Clin Exp Rheumatol Source Type: research