How often do you routinely perform tuberculin skin testing with this drug or situation?*
| Response (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Always | Sometimes | Never | Don’t use this drug | Don’t know | |
| *Respondents asked to choose one answer (column) for each drug (n = 900, online survey, US rheumatologists, April 2005). | |||||
| BCG, bacillus Calmette-Guérin; DMARD, disease modifying antirheumatic drug; Hx, history; PPD, partial purified derivative. | |||||
| Etanercept | 93 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Infliximab | 95 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Adalimumab | 92 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Anakinra | 42 | 13 | 15 | 28 | 2 |
| Rituximab | 35 | 6 | 10 | 39 | 9 |
| Abatacept | 18 | 1 | 2 | 67 | 12 |
| Methotrexate | 8 | 39 | 51 | 0 | 1 |
| Combination DMARDs | 9 | 41 | 48 | 1 | 1 |
| High dose steroids | 17 | 48 | 33 | 1 | 1 |
| History of PPD+ | 28 | 21 | 47 | 1 | 4 |
| History of BCG vaccination | 22 | 23 | 45 | 2 | 7 |