Abstracts tagged "Access to care"

Abstract Number: 0227 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Rheumatology Workforce: Analyzing Geographic and Temporal Variations Among the Rheumatology Physician Workforce in the United States
Kavish Singh¹, Lynn Foster-Johnson², Sladjana Skopelja-Gardner³, Arabi Rasendrakumar⁴, Temitope Ajayi⁵ and Aakanksha Khanna⁶, ¹Montefiore Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, ²Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, NH, ³Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, ⁴University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, ⁵University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, ⁶Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
Background/Purpose: To analyze recent trends in the rheumatology workforce related to temporal and national geographic variation in the United States (US). Methods: The publicly available physician workforce…
Abstract Number: 1101 • ACR Convergence 2022
Sex and Racial Differences in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Among U.S. Adults in the All of Us Research Program
Rachel Elam¹, Deepak Ayyala¹, Adria Madera-Acosta¹, Stephen Bell¹, Anam Qureshi¹, Christopher Rice², Laura Carbone¹, Steven Coughlin¹ and Hong Shi³, ¹Augusta University, Augusta, GA, ²Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, Augusta, GA, ³Department of Internal Medicine/Division of Rheumatology, Vascular Biology Center, Augusta, GA
Background/Purpose: Most persons with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are women, and men with SLE are an understudied demographic. The purpose of this study was to…
Abstract Number: 1530 • ACR Convergence 2022
Scleroderma Renal Crisis: Time to Initiation of Therapy Does Not Affect Mortality
Aditi Patel¹, Chao Zhang¹ and Soumya Chatterjee², ¹Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ²Cleveland Clinic, Richmond Heights, OH
Background/Purpose: Scleroderma renal crisis (SRC) is a rare complication in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), characterized by accelerated hypertension and acute kidney injury. ACE inhibitors…
Abstract Number: 0081 • ACR Convergence 2022
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Rheumatology Services in a Universal Healthcare Setting in Canada: A Population-based Study
Timothy Kwok¹, Bindee Kuriya¹, Lauren King¹, Lihi Eder², Carter Thorne³, Zhiyin Li⁴, therese stukel⁴, longdi fu⁴, alexander Kopp⁴ and Jessica Widdifield⁵, ¹University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Women’s College Research Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ⁴ICES, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: We sought to describe changes in service delivery and access to rheumatologists in terms of changes in weekly total office visit volumes, telemedicine visits,…
Abstract Number: 0240 • ACR Convergence 2022
Few and Far Between: Addressing the Pediatric Rheumatology Workforce Gap with a Spotlight on Medicine-pediatrics Residency Trained Rheumatologist Career Paths
Kimberly DeQuattro¹, Cuoghi Edens², Connie Herndon³, Bethany Marston⁴ and Beth Jonas⁵, ¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ³American College of Rheumatology, Atlanta, GA, ⁴University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, ⁵University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: The pediatric rheumatology workforce faces a critical shortage. The recent ACR Pediatric Rheumatology Workforce Study projects that by 2030, modest expansion of the 300…
Abstract Number: 1224 • ACR Convergence 2022
‘No Route Map’: The Complex Healthcare Journeys of People with Fibromyalgia – a Record Linkage Study in the UK
Rosemary Hollick, Ka-Kin Lam, Marcus Beasley, Gareth Jones, Corri Black and Gary Macfarlane, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Healthcare services for persons with fibromyalgia (FM) lack co-ordination. Patients describe feeling 'invisible' within healthcare systems and often report poor experiences of care, particularly…
Abstract Number: 1583 • ACR Convergence 2022
Race and Disease Severity Predict Reduced Response to Treat-to-Target Urate Lowering Therapy in Gout: Post-hoc Analysis of a Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Non-Inferiority Trial
Lindsay Helget¹, James O'Dell¹, Jeff Newcomb¹, Maria Androsenko², Mary Brophy², Anne Davis-Karim³, Bryant England¹, Ryan Ferguson², Michael Pillinger⁴, Tuhina Neogi⁵, Paul Palevsky⁶, Hongsheng Wu² and Ted Mikuls⁷, ¹University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ²VA Boston Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, Boston, MA, ³VA Cooperative Studies Program Clinical Research Pharmacy Coordinating Center, Albuquerque, NM, ⁴NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁵Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁶University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Background/Purpose: The ACR recommends a treat-to-target strategy in the management of gout, involving titration of urate lowering therapy (ULT) to a serum urate (SU) goal…
Abstract Number: 0086 • ACR Convergence 2022
Patient and Provider Perspectives on Barriers to Communication and Care of Latinx Patients with Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Monica Crespo Bosque¹, Pablo Weilg Espejo² and Candace Feldman³, ¹Boston University, Boston, MA, ²Boston Medical Center, Chelsea, MA, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Latinx patients, a heterogenous population with a range of experiences including migration, language, and race, experience a disproportionate burden of adverse outcomes from systemic…
Abstract Number: 0382 • ACR Convergence 2022
Factors Associated with Diagnostic Delay in Axial Spondyloarthritis: Impact of Clinical Factors and Social Vulnerability
Gregory McDermott¹, Faith Selzer¹, Sizheng Zhao², Joerg Ermann³ and Jeffrey Katz¹, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²University of Manchester, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) experience significant delay between symptom onset and diagnosis. Determinants of delay are incompletely understood. We investigated the associations between…
Abstract Number: 1285 • ACR Convergence 2022
Joint Injection Workflow in Rheumatology – an Opportunity to Improve Efficiency and Physician Satisfaction
Melissa Band¹, Eric Newman², Andrea Berger¹, Kirsten Koons³, Madhuri Duggirala¹, Rajesh Kuppuraju⁴, Peter Daniel Nicholas III⁵, David Bulbin⁶, David Pugliese⁷ and Jonida Cote⁸, ¹Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, ²Geisinger, Danville, PA, ³Geisinger Medical Center, Lewisburg, PA, ⁴Geisinger Medical Center, General Rheumatology Fellowship, Danville, PA, ⁵Geisinger Medical Center, Leesport, PA, ⁶Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, ⁷Geisinger Health System, Wilkes-Barre, PA, ⁸Geisinger Medical Center, Orefield, PA
Background/Purpose: Physicians strive to provide patient-centered, timely care, often with perceived inadequate blocked time on the schedule. We aim to understand the joint injection workflow,…
Abstract Number: 1777 • ACR Convergence 2022
A Symptom Checker App Is Better at Classifying Inflammatory Disease Than Physicians Who Are Presented Identical Information
markus Gräf¹, Johannes Knitza², Jan Leipe³, Martin Krusche⁴, Martin Welcker⁵, Sebastian Kuhn⁶, Johanna Mucke⁷, Axel Hueber⁸, Johannes Hornig⁹, Philipp Klemm¹⁰, stefan Kleinert¹¹, Peer Aries¹², Nicolas Vuillerme¹³, Arnd Kleyer², Georg Schett¹⁴ and Johanna Callhoff¹⁵, ¹Department of Internal Medicine 3, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ²Department of Internal Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie, Friedrich-Alexander-UniversityErlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine V, University Hospital Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, ⁴University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, ⁵GBR, Planegg, Germany, ⁶Department of Digital Medicine, Medical Faculty OWL, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany, ⁷Policlinic and Hiller Research Center, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Neuss, Germany, ⁸Paracelsus University Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, ⁹Rheumatologische Schwerpunktpraxis, Osnabrück, Germany, ¹⁰Campus Kerckhoff of Justus Liebig University Giessen, Bad Nauheim, Germany, ¹¹Praxisgemeinschaft Rheumatologie - Nephrologie (PGRN), Erlangen, Germany, ¹²Rheumatologie im Struenseehaus, Hamburg, Germany, ¹³Université Grenoble Alpes, AGEIS, Grenoble, France, ¹⁴Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ¹⁵German Rheumatism Research Centre, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the ability of an artificial intelligence-based symptom checker app (Ada) and physicians to determine the presence/absence…
Abstract Number: 0087 • ACR Convergence 2022
Does Limited English Proficiency Lead to Additional Health Inequity in Medically Vulnerable Populations in Outpatient Rheumatology?
Veena Patel¹ and Kevin Hackshaw², ¹Dell Medical School - UT Health Austin, Austin, TX, ²The University of Texas at Austin, Hutto, TX
Background/Purpose: Lack of health insurance and limited English proficiency (LEP) are two factors that can create significant health disparity in the United States which can…
Abstract Number: 0629 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Cellular Metabolism of SLE NK Cells Is Primarily Altered at the Level of Mitochondrial Respiration
Natalia Fluder, Morgane Humbel, camillo Ribi and Denis Comte, Service of Immunology and Allergy / CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic inflammatory disorder, which involves a loss of tolerance and development of autoantibodies. The role of Natural Killer…
Abstract Number: 1286 • ACR Convergence 2022
Increasing Biosimilar Uptake in the Rheumatology Clinics Within a Large Academic Medical Center
Joad Eseddi¹, DeAnne Carmichael², Shannon Wishin³ and Puneet Bajaj², ¹UT Southwestern School of Medicine, Dallas, TX, ²UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ³UT Southwestern Medical Centre, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: Biological drugs have revolutionized the treatment of rheumatic diseases. However, increasing the use of biologics over the past few years has directly contributed towards…
Abstract Number: 1926 • ACR Convergence 2022
Analysis of New Patient Referrals to a Large Pediatric Rheumatology Clinic
Daniel Reiff, Melissa Mannion, Emily Smitherman, Matthew Stoll, Peter Weiser and Randy Cron, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Large pediatric rheumatology centers receive hundreds of yearly referrals with a wide variety of complaints and diagnoses. The amount of referrals received can lead…

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