Table 1.
Research objective described using PICO
Participants | Adult patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, axial spondyloarthritis or ankylosing spondylitis |
Intervention | Targeted therapies (ie, biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs) |
Comparison | Placebo, standard care or waiting list/no intervention, active comparator and unclear (ie, comparison described in insufficient detail to fit within the other categories) |
Outcomes | Number of withdrawals, number of withdrawals due to adverse events, number of serious adverse events and number of patients who died |
PICO, participants, intervention, comparison and outcomes.