Preferences of patients with rheumatoid arthritis regarding disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: a discrete choice experiment

Milou van Heuckelum,1,2 Elke GE Mathijssen,2 Marcia Vervloet,3 Annelies Boonen,4,5 Renske CF Hebing,6 Annelieke Pasma,7 Harald E Vonkeman,8,9 Mark H Wenink,2,10 Bart JF van den Bemt,1,11–12 Liset van Dijk3,131Department of Pharmacy, Sint Maartenskliniek, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; 2Department of Rheumatology, Sint Maartenskliniek, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; 3Nivel (Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research), Utrecht, the Netherlands; 4Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands; 5Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, the Netherlands; 6Department of Rheumatology, Reade, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 7Department of Rheumatology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; 8Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Medisch Spectrum Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands; 9Department of Psychology, Health and Technology, Arthritis Center Twente, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands; 10Department of Rheumatology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; 11Department of Pharmacy, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; 12Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Toxicology, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, the Netherlands; 13Department of PharmacoTherapy, Epidemiology & Economics (PTEE), Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, the NetherlandsBackground: Although patients have different treatment preferences, these individual preferences could often be grouped in subgroups with shared preferences. Knowledge of these subgroups as well as factors associated with subgroup membership supports health care professionals in the understanding of what matters to patients in clinical decision-making.Objectives: To identify subgroups of patients