Table 2.

Patient acceptance of biosimilars

Patient status	Biologic naive	Biooriginator patients in need of switch for clinical reasons	Biooriginator patients not in need of switch for clinical reasons
Patients accepted without reluctance (%)
N	48	48	48
Mean	71.2	61.3	56.3
SD	28.46	28.94	34.88
Patients reluctant but accepted as no other choice (%)
N	48	48	48
Mean	16.1	23.5	19.6
SD	17.88	20.31	19.14
Patients refused but accepted biooriginator (%)
N	48	48	48
Mean	7.3	10.8	18.5
SD	10.74	13.14	24.43
Patients refused biosimilar and biooriginator (%)
N	48	48	48
Mean	5.4	4.4	5.6
SD	7.42	6.33	8.29

Note: N, number of rheumatologists responding.

Abbreviation: SD, standard deviation.