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. 2021 Sep 6;11(9):e049850. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049850

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.