Table 1 Selected medicines of interest

Conventional DMARDs medicines (alphabetical)

Azathioprine [29,30,31,32,33]

Calcineurin inhibitors (cyclosporine, pimecrolimus, tacrolimus considered together) [29, 34,35,36,37,38,39]

Colchicine [40]

Corticosteroids (cortisone, dexamethasone, hydrocortisone, methylprednisolone, prednisone, triamcinolone considered together) [29,30,31,32,33,34,35, 38, 39, 41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50]

Cyclophosphamide [30,31,32,33, 36,37,38,39]

Hydroxychloroquine [36, 37]

Leflunomide [29, 30, 32, 34, 35, 41, 42]

Methotrexate [29, 31,32,33,34,35,36, 38, 41,42,43, 45,46,47, 50,51,52]

Mycophenolate mofetil and mycophenolate sodium considered together [29, 31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38, 44, 47, 51, 52]

Sulfasalazine [29, 41, 42]

Biologic DMARDs (alphabetical)

Abatacept [29, 34, 35, 41, 42]

Adalimumab [34, 35, 41, 42]

Anakinra [39, 43, 49]

Belimumab [36]

Canakinumab [49]

Certolizumab [42]

Etanercept [34, 38, 41, 42, 49, 50]

Golimumab [29, 35, 41, 42]

Infliximab [29, 34, 35, 38, 39, 41, 42, 48, 50]

Rilonacept [49]

Rituximab [29, 31, 33, 35, 36, 41, 42, 52]

Tocilizumab [29, 32,33,34,35, 41,42,43, 49]

Ustekinumab [53, 54]