Abstracts tagged "access to care and medication"

Abstract Number: 267 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Patterns of Access to Prescription Medications Among Lupus Cases and Controls in the Population-Based Michigan Lupus Epidemiology & Surveillance (MILES) Cohort
Deeba Minhas¹, Wendy Marder¹, Siobán Harlow², Suzanna Zick³, Afton L. Hassett⁴, Kamil E. Barbour⁵, Charles G. Helmick⁵, Caroline Gordon⁶, Jiha Lee¹, Amrita Padda¹, W. Joseph McCune¹ and Emily C. Somers¹, ¹Rheumatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Epidemiology Department- School of Public Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology- Medical School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Department of Family Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁴Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁵Arthritis Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, ⁶University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Medication access and adherence are important issues in determining patient outcomes. We investigated sociodemographic factors and disparities associated with prescription medication access in a…