Treat-to-target approach in daily clinical practice in Pakistani patients with early rheumatoid arthritis

To determine the frequency of patients with early Rheumatoid Arthritis [RA] achieving disease remission and/or low disease activity after 6 months of treatment with conventional Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs [DMARDs] by using treat-to-target approach in routine clinical practice. Descriptive study. Division of Rheumatology, Fatima Memorial Hospital [FMH], College of Medicine and Dentistry, Lahore, from March 2011 to February 2012. Patients with early RA defined as disease duration