The Lifetime Cost of Long-Term Steroids
A microsimulation model has quantified what clinicians have long suspected: sustained steroid exposure in autoimmune disease carries a measurable, and avoidable, clinical and economic burden that ...
In Conversation With… Mark Kosinski
“Measurement matters, but only when it changes decisions.” Patient-reported outcome science has spent three decades proving that what patients experience is as important as what clinicians observe. ...
Steroid-Toxicity in Pediatric Lupus: The Case for Standardized Measurement
Children with lupus carry a heavy steroid-toxicity burden that cannot be captured by measuring dose. A real-world study from Boston Children's Hospital and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ...
Six Months on Steroids: The Point at Which Toxicity Becomes Undeniable
A new prospective study published in Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism confirms what clinicians have long known but have been unable to quantify: steroid-toxicity is universal in patients on ...
The HEOR Measurement Gap Pharma Can No Longer Ignore
Pharmaceutical companies need to replace dose reduction measures with direct toxicity measurement in health-economic models Dose reduction overlooks the hidden healthcare costs of steroid-toxicity. ...
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