Inclusion Criteria:

Active AS patients (as judged by the treating MD) who are currently employed. Patients who are scheduled by their rheumatologist to initiate treatment with Etanercept.

Exclusion Criteria:

Patients who initiated a procedure for eligibility of work disability/pension Patients with previous use of TNF-alpha inhibitors either in commercial use, or in a study for the treatment of AS or a related spondylarthropathy condition

Read more: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01421303?cond=%22Arthritis%22&lup_s=07/28/2011&lup_d=30