Levels of satisfaction with rheumatoid arthritis treatment and associated alignment between physicians and patients across Latin America.

Introduction: Discordance (misalignment) regarding treatment satisfaction may exist in real-life clinical practice between patients and their physicians. We aimed to assess physician and patient treatment satisfaction levels and associated degree of misalignment in rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Method: A point-in-time, multinational survey of patients and physicians was conducted in Latin America from December 2014 to October 2015.