Is infliximab maintenance therapy associated with decreases in direct resource use in patients with luminal or fistulizing Crohn 's disease?
Maintenance IFX in CD patients is associated with decreases in the use and length of hospitalizations and the need for surgery in clinical practice.
In general, these results suggest that advanced access can have a positive impact across several aspects of primary care services, and not just the availability of GP appointments. However, it also highlights some problems, in that waiting times worsened in some practices and there were concerns that some vulnerable groups may be disadvantaged.