PMS17 ESTIMATION OF COSTS OF HEALTH CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS FOR VARYING DEGREES OF DISABILITY AS MEASURED BY THE HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

OBJECTIVES: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) confers both significant short- and longterm disability, and substantial background health care costs, yet cost data are scarce. We modeled disability in RA using covariates also available in routine, primary care data from which total health care cost were estimated. METHODS: In modeling disability, biologic-naive RA cases from the UK biologics register were selected. General Linear Modeling (GLM) was...