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Abstract Number: 1030 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Unwanted Variations in Rheumatology Clinic Rooming: A Time Study Tool and Analysis
Brad Stroik¹, Christie M. Bartels², Diane Lauver³, Patrick McBride⁴, Jon Arnason², Sarah Loring³ and Edmond Ramly^5,6, ¹University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ²Medicine, Rheumatology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ³University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, Madison, WI, ⁴Cardiology/Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ⁵Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, ⁶Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering, Madison, WI
Background/Purpose: Facing fixed time for specialty visits, the time staff spends on rooming patients is a premium, but remains poorly understood. We conducted a time…
Abstract Number: 1031 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Quantifying the Delays to Rheumatologist Consultation and Treatment Among Patients with Systemic Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases
Jessica Widdifield¹, Sasha Bernatsky², J Carter Thorne³, Claire Bombardier⁴, R. Liisa Jaakkimainen⁵, Vandana Ahluwalia⁶, J. Michael Paterson⁷, Noah Ivers⁴, Debra Butt⁸ and Karen Tu⁸, ¹McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Rheum/Clin. Epid., McGill MUHC/RVH, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ⁴University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Preventive Med and Biostatisti, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶Past President, Ontario Rheumatology Association, Brampton, ON, Canada, ⁷ICES, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Optimal care for systemic inflammatory rheumatic diseases often hinges upon early referral from primary care physicians (PCP) to rheumatologists. Our aim was to quantify…
Abstract Number: 1032 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Adherence Patterns to American Academy of Ophthalmology Guidelines for Hydroxychloroquine Baseline Screening: Quality Assurance Assessment Utilizing Highmark Claims Data
Christina Payne¹, Patricia Gladowski², James Byers Jr.², Amy Tang³ and Mary Chester M. Wasko⁴, ¹Allegheny General Hospital Department of Medicine, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Enterprise Knowledge Discovery, Highmark Health, Pittsburgh, PA, ³Asthma, Allergy and Autoimmunity Institute, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁴Lupus Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is an antimalarial agent used commonly to treat selected autoimmune rheumatic diseases because of its therapeutic benefits, low cost, and favorable safety…
Abstract Number: 1033 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Novel Ligand-Independent Peptide Inhibitors of Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells 1 (TREM-1) and T Cell Receptor (TCR): Efficacy in a Collagen-Induced Arthritis Model Suggests New Targeted Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Zu T. Shen and Alexander B. Sigalov, SignaBlok, Inc., Shrewsbury, MA
Background/Purpose: Macrophages and T cells are central to the pathophysiology of autoimmune diseases. Synovial macrophages, synovial fibroblasts and infiltrating T lymphocytes are the most abundant…
Abstract Number: 1034 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Immunomodulation By a Second-Generation Peptidyl Arginine Deiminase Inhibitor Abrogates Collagen-Induced Arthritis in a Therapeutic Protocol
Anne-Marie Quirke¹, Joanna Kawalkowska², Fatemeh Ghari³, Venkataraman Subramaniam⁴, Paul Thompson⁵, Richard O. Williams¹, Nick La Thangue³ and Patrick J. Venables¹, ¹Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ²Kennedy Institute for Rheumatology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ³Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ⁴Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, ⁵University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA
Background/Purpose: Citrullination is a post translational modification of arginine catalysed by peptidyl arginine deiminases (PADs) and may be important in generating pathogenic autoantibodies to citrullinated…
Abstract Number: 1035 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Synovium-Derived microRNAs Inhibit Bone Formation in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Ellen M. Gravallese¹, Yukiko Maeda², Nicholas H Farina³, Paul Fanning⁴ and Jane Lian³, ¹Lazare Research Bldg Ste 223, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, ²Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, ³Department of Biochemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, ⁴Department of Orthopedics, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
Background/Purpose: Articular bone erosion in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a consequence of synovial inflammation that leads to disability for patients. Cells within the synovium secrete…
Abstract Number: 1036 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Important Role of microRNA-146a in Inflammatory Arthritis By Controlling Local Bone Destruction
Victoria Saferding¹, Antonia Puchner², Eliana Goncalves-Alves³, Melanie Hofmann³, Emine Sahin⁴, Silvia Hayer⁵, Philippe Georgel⁶, Marije M. Koenders⁷, Gernot Schabbauer⁴, Josef S. Smolen³, Guenter Steiner⁸, Kurt Redlich³ and Stephan Blüml³, ¹Rheumatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ²Department of Rheumatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ³Division of Rheumatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁴Vascular Biology and Thrombosis research, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁵Waehringer Guertel 18-20 A-A09, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁶Centre de Recherche en Immunologie et Hématologie, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, ⁷Medical Center, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands, ⁸Internal Medicine III, Division of Rheumatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Background/Purpose: MicroRNA (MiR-) 146a is a key regulator of the innate immune response and has also been shown to suppress cancer development in myeloid cells.…
Abstract Number: 1037 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Impaired Regulatory T Cell Survival in the Pathogenesis of Autoreactive Arthritis Mediated By CD11c-Deletion of Flip
Qi Quan Huang¹, Renee E. Doyle¹, Robert Birkett², Deyu Fang³, Syamal K. Datta¹ and Richard M. Pope¹, ¹Medicine/Rheumatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Division of Rheumatology, Department od Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ³Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: We have generated a mouse line with Flip conditionally deleted in CD11c-cre expressing cells (CD11c-Flip-KO, named HUPO), which spontaneously develops erosive arthritis resembling rheumatoid…
Abstract Number: 1038 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha and Peptidylarginine Deiminase 4 in Lung and Joint Inflammation
Mandar Bawadekar¹, Annette Gendron-Fitzpatrick², Thomas F. Warner³, Lennart K.A. Lundblad⁴, Paul Thompson⁵ and Miriam A. Shelef^1,6, ¹Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ²Comparative Pathology Laboratory of the Research Animal Resources Center and Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ³Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ⁴Medicine, The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, ⁵University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, ⁶Medicine, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI
Background/Purpose: The relationship between lung and joint inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis is poorly understood. About 10% of people with rheumatoid arthritis develop interstitial lung disease…
Abstract Number: 1039 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Safety and Effect on Disease Activity of Tocilizumab in Combination with MTX Versus Tocilizumab Monotherapy in Patients with Mild to Moderate RA: An Attempt to Optimise the Treatment Response
Burkhard Leeb^1,2, Raimund Lunzer³, Peter Fasching⁴, Manfred Herold⁵, O. Zamani⁶, Winfried Graninger⁷ and OPTIMISE trial Investigators, ¹2nd Dept. of Medicine, State Hospital Stockerau, Center for Rheumatology Lower Austria, Stockerau, Austria, ²Department of Clinical Rheumatology, Karl Landsteiner Society, Stockerau, Austria, ³Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Barmherzige Brüder Graz-Eggenberg, Graz, Austria, ⁴Department of Internal Medicine V, Wilhelminen Hospital Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁵Internal Medicine VI, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria, Innsbruck, Austria, ⁶Rheumazentrum Favoriten, Wien, Austria, ⁷Rheumatology and Immunology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Background/Purpose: An Austrian multi-center study of the effect on disease activity and the safety of Tocilizumab (TCZ) in combination with Methotrexate (MTX) versus TCZ Monotherapy…
Abstract Number: 1040 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Factors Associated with Long Term Rituximab Use in Rheumatoid Arthritis – Results from the British Society of Rheumatology Biologics Register
Alexander G.S. Oldroyd¹, Deborah P.M. Symmons¹, Lianne Kearsley-Fleet¹, Kath Watson¹, Mark Lunt², Jamie Sergeant¹, Kimme L. Hyrich¹ and on behalf of the BSRBR-RA, ¹Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ²Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Analysis of long term continuation of biologics in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is considered a valid surrogate for treatment effectiveness and safety. Only a small…
Abstract Number: 1041 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Methotrexate Monotherapy and Methotrexate Combination Therapy with Traditional and Biologic Dmards for Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Cochrane Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis
Glen S. Hazlewood^1,2, Cheryl Barnabe³, George A. Tomlinson⁴, Deborah Marshall⁵, Daniel Devoe⁵ and Claire Bombardier⁶, ¹Institute of Health, Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ³Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁴Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁶18 Strathearn Blvd, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: To compare methotrexate based disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) treatments for rheumatoid arthritis in patients naïve to or after an inadequate response (IR) to methotrexate. …
Abstract Number: 1042 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Pragmatic Multicenter Open-Label Randomized Controlled Trial of Stopping TNF-Inhibitors in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients in Remission or Stable Low Disease Activity in the Netherlands
Marjan Ghiti Moghadam¹, Harald E. Vonkeman², Peter M. ten Klooster³, Janneke Tekstra⁴, Dirkjan van Schaardenburg⁵, Mirian Starmans-kool^6,7, Elisabeth Brouwer⁸, Reinhard Bos⁹, Willem F. Lems¹⁰, Edgar Colin¹¹, Cornelia F. Allaart¹², Inger L. Meek¹³, Robert B.M. Landewé¹⁴, Hein J. Bernelot Moens¹⁵, Piet van Riel¹³, Mart A.F.J. van de Laar¹⁶, Tim Jansen¹⁷ and on behalf of the Dutch National POET Collaboration., ¹rheumatology, Medisch Spectrum Twente - Arthritis Center Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, ²Ariensplein 1, Medisch Spectrum Twente - Arthritis Center Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, ³Pcgr, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, ⁴Dept. Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ⁵Jan van Breemen Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁶Rheumatology, Orbis Medical Center, Geleen-Sittard, Netherlands, ⁷Rheumatology, Atrium Medical center, Heerlen, Netherlands, ⁸Rheumatology, University Medical center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ⁹Rheumatology, Medical Center Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, ¹⁰Rheumatology, Amsterdam Rheumatology and immunology Center, VU University medical center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ¹¹Rheumatology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ¹²Department of Rheumatology, Leiden Universitary Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ¹³Rheumatology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands, ¹⁴Department of Rheumatology, Amsterdam Rheumatology Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ¹⁵rheumatology, Ziekenhuisgroep Twente, Almelo, Netherlands, ¹⁶Rheumatology, Medisch Spectrum Twente - Arthritis Center Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, ¹⁷VieCuri Medical Center, Venlo, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: TNF-inhibitors (TNFi) are effective treatments of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). It is not clear if patients in remission or stable low disease activity need to…
Abstract Number: 1043 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Enhancing Comparative Effectiveness Research By Combining Observational and Randomized Trial Data to Personalize the Choice Between Methotrexate and Triple Therapy for Methotrexate-Naïve Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
Glen S. Hazlewood^1,2, Cheryl Barnabe³, Gilles Boire⁴, Carol Hitchon⁵, Edward C. Keystone⁶, Boulos Haraoui⁷, J Carter Thorne⁸, Diane Tin⁹, Janet E. Pope¹⁰, Daming Lin¹¹, VP Bykerk¹² and CATCH investigators, ¹Institute of Health, Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ³Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁴Department of Medicine/Division of Rheumatology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, ⁵University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ⁶Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁷Institut de Rhumatologie, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁸Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ⁹The Arthritis Program, Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ¹⁰University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ¹¹Rheumatology, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹²Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are considered the gold standard for comparing efficacy of treatments, but the results may be less generalizable to clinical practice…
Abstract Number: 1044 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Many Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Want Triple Therapy: An Analysis Combining Comparative Effectiveness Research and Patients Preferences to Inform Treatment Recommendations
Glen S. Hazlewood^1,2, Claire Bombardier³, George A. Tomlinson⁴ and Deborah Marshall⁵, ¹Institute of Health, Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ³Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Medicine, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Background/Purpose: Growing evidence supports the efficacy of triple therapy (methotrexate + sulphasalazine + hydroxychloroquine) for controlling disease activity in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (ERA),…

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