The 2025 British Society for Rheumatology guideline for the prescription and monitoring of conventional synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs

Katie Bechman; Kaiyang Song; Abhishek Abhishek; Maryam Adas; Alison Ahmed; Lisa Bray; Alan Davidson; Samundeeswari Deepak; Mrinalini Dey; Hope De Vere; Emmandeep Dhillon; Nicola Faithfull; Amy Foulkes; Mark Gibson; Nicola Gullick; Karen Hartley; Rebecca Heaton; Samantha Hider; Julia Holmes; Claire Jones; Akhila Kavirayani; Sameena Khalid; Stuart Kyle; Sarah L Mackie; Madura Adikari; Clare Nash; Katarzyna Nowak; Kate Parsons; Samir Patel; Subhra Raghuvanshi; John A Reynolds; Emily Rose-Parfitt; Sarah Ryan; Sanaa Said; Pratyasha Saha; Jennifer Scott; Vinay Shivamurthy; Su-Yin Tan; Helen Twohig; Kishore Warrier; Natasha Wood; Genevieve Zabate; Benjamin Zuckerman; James Galloway; Louise Mercer; British Society for Rheumatology Guidelines Steering Group

doi:10.1093/rheumatology/keaf522

The 2025 British Society for Rheumatology guideline for the prescription and monitoring of conventional synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs

Katie Bechman
, Kaiyang Song
, Abhishek Abhishek
, Maryam Adas
, Alison Ahmed
, Lisa Bray
, Alan Davidson
, Samundeeswari Deepak
, Mrinalini Dey
, Hope De Vere
, Emmandeep Dhillon
, Nicola Faithfull
, Amy Foulkes
, Mark Gibson
, Nicola Gullick
, Karen Hartley
, Rebecca Heaton
, Samantha Hider
, Julia Holmes
, Claire Jones

Akhila Kavirayani, Sameena Khalid, Stuart Kyle, Sarah L Mackie, Madura Adikari, Clare Nash, Katarzyna Nowak, Kate Parsons, Samir Patel, Subhra Raghuvanshi, John A Reynolds, Emily Rose-Parfitt, Sarah Ryan, Sanaa Said, Pratyasha Saha, Jennifer Scott, Vinay Shivamurthy, Su-Yin Tan, Helen Twohig, Kishore Warrier, Natasha Wood, Genevieve Zabate, Benjamin Zuckerman, James Galloway, Louise Mercer (Lead / Corresponding author), British Society for Rheumatology Guidelines Steering Group

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Original language	English
Article number	keaf522
Pages (from-to)	1-36
Number of pages	36
Journal	Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
Early online date	14 Nov 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keaf522
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 14 Nov 2025

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Bechman, K., Song, K., Abhishek, A., Adas, M., Ahmed, A., Bray, L., Davidson, A., Deepak, S., Dey, M., De Vere, H., Dhillon, E., Faithfull, N., Foulkes, A., Gibson, M., Gullick, N., Hartley, K., Heaton, R., Hider, S., Holmes, J., ... British Society for Rheumatology Guidelines Steering Group (2025). The 2025 British Society for Rheumatology guideline for the prescription and monitoring of conventional synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs. Rheumatology (Oxford, England), 1-36. Article keaf522. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keaf522

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