Abstracts tagged "Administrative Data"

Abstract Number: 0347 • ACR Convergence 2022
Real-World Effectiveness of Belimumab in Patients with SLE in the United States
Christopher Bell¹, Bernie Rubin², Karen Worley³, Guillaume Germain⁴, François Laliberté⁴, Sean D. MacKnight⁴, Ana Urosevic⁴ and Mei Sheng Duh⁵, ¹GlaxoSmithKline, US Value, Evidence and Outcomes, Research Triangle Park, NC, ²GlaxoSmithKline, US Medical Affairs and Immuno-inflammation, Durham, NC, ³GlaxoSmithKline, US Value, Evidence and Outcomes, Cincinnati, OH, ⁴Groupe d’analyse, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁵Analysis Group Inc, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the real-world effectiveness of the disease-modifying treatment belimumab (BEL), comparing the rates of SLE flares among…
Abstract Number: 1199 • ACR Convergence 2022
Validation of New Medication User Definitions in Single-Specialty EHR Data
Jeffrey Curtis¹, Yujie Su², Michael george³, Cassie Clinton², Patrick Stewart⁴, Tim Buekelman⁵ and Fenglong Xie², ¹Division of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³UPENN, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Bendcare, Boca Raton, FL, ⁵FASTER, Hoover, AL
Background/Purpose: New user designs are standard in many pharmacoepidemiology studies, but a first prescription appearance in electronic health record (EHR) data may not always represent…
Abstract Number: 0354 • ACR Convergence 2022
Clinical and Economic Characterization of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients by Cumulative Corticosteroid Dose over 1 Year: Real-World Observation of Commercially Insured Adults in the United States
Sandra Sze-jung Wu¹, Allison Perry², Helen Varker³, Rich Bizier³, Liisa Palmer³ and Gary Bryant⁴, ¹AstraZeneca, Hockessin, DE, ²IBM Watson Health, New York, NY, ³Merative, Cambridge, MA, ⁴AstraZeneca, New Castle, DE
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex, heterogeneous disease associated with periods of flares. Identifying patients at risk of severe disease and associated resource…
Abstract Number: 1378 • ACR Convergence 2022
Childhood-onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Long-term Outcomes in a Large Multi-ethnic Ontario Cohort
Ha-Seul Jeoung¹, Kuan Liu¹, Roberta Berard², Wes Fidler³, Janet Pope⁴, Johannes Roth⁵, Carter Thorne⁶, Earl Silverman⁷ and Deborah Levy⁸, ¹University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada, ³St. Joseph's Hospital, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada, ⁴University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ⁵University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, ⁶Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ⁷The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children; Child Health Evaluative Services, SickKids Research Institute; Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: The long-term morbidity and mortality of childhood-onset SLE (cSLE) after transition to adult care is not well documented. The present study aims to fill…
Abstract Number: 0550 • ACR Convergence 2022
Improving the Accuracy of Automated Gout Flare Ascertainment Using Natural Language Processing of Medical Records and Linked Medicare Claims Data for Real-world Comparative Effectiveness Research
Kazuki Yoshida, Tianrun Cai, Lily G Bessette, Erin Kim, Su Been Lee, Luke E Zabotka, Alec Sun, Julianna M. Mastrorilli, Theresa A. Oduol, Jun Liu, Daniel Solomon, Katherine Liao and Seoyoung Kim, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Gout flares are challenging to study using large real-world data because flares are episodic with varying severity and clinical manifestations. Furthermore, there is no…
Abstract Number: 1488 • ACR Convergence 2022
Incremental Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs of Herpes Zoster in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis: A Retrospective Cohort Study
David Singer¹, Philippe Thompson-Leduc², Siyu Ma³, Deepshekhar Gupta⁴, Wendy Cheng⁵, Selvam Sendhil⁶, Manasvi Sundar⁶, Ella Hagopian⁵, Mei Sheng Duh⁷ and Sara Poston¹, ¹GSK, Philadelphia, PA, ²Analysis Group, Inc., Montréal, QC, Canada, ³GSK/Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, ⁴Analysis Group, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, ⁵Analysis Group, Inc., Boston, MA, ⁶Analysis Group, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, ⁷Analysis Group Inc, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) may be at increased risk of herpes zoster (HZ). HZ can involve a painful dermatomal rash and lead to…
Abstract Number: 0707 • ACR Convergence 2022
Accuracy of Administrative Claims Prescription Fill Data to Estimate Glucocorticoid Use and Dose in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rachel W. Galvao¹, Jeffrey Curtis², Leslie Harrold³, Qufei Wu⁴, Fenglong Xie⁵ and Michael George⁴, ¹Yale University, New Haven, CT, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Hoover, AL, ³CorEvitas, LLC, Waltham, MA, ⁴University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Glucocorticoids (GCs) are used commonly to treat patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other inflammatory conditions. As clinical trials are often underpowered to assess…
Abstract Number: 1591 • ACR Convergence 2022
Overall and Post-vaccination Prevalence of Severe COVID-19-related Events Among Commercially Insured Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and the General U.S. Population
Sandra Sze-jung Wu¹, Gelareh Atefi², Meghan Moynihan³, Kristin Evans³, Liisa Palmer³, Michael Pollack², Christine Dube⁴ and Cassandra Calabrese⁵, ¹AstraZeneca, Hockessin, DE, ²AstraZeneca, Wilmington, DE, ³Merative, Cambridge, MA, ⁴AstraZeneca, Torrington, CT, ⁵Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland Heights, OH
Background/Purpose: To assess the prevalence of severe COVID-19 (COVID) overall and following vaccination among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and the general population, and…
Abstract Number: L11 • ACR Convergence 2021
Cardiovascular Risk of Hydroxychloroquine in the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Retrospective Cohort Study
ELVIRA D'ANDREA¹, Rishi Desai², Mengdong He³, Robert Glynn⁴, Hemin Lee², Michael Weinblatt², Daniel Solomon⁵ and Seoyoung Kim², ¹Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital, Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a commonly used 1st-line disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the U.S., while methotrexate (MTX) is…
Abstract Number: L16 • ACR Convergence 2021
Breakthrough COVID-19 Infections Post-vaccination Among Immunocompromised Patients with Autoimmune or Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis from a U.S. Nationally-sampled Electronic Medical Record Data Repository
Jasvinder Singh¹, Namrata Singh², Alfred Anzalone³, Amy Olex⁴, Jing Sun⁵, Vithal Madhira⁶ and Rena Patel⁷, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Washington, Bellevue, WA, ³University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, ⁴Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, ⁵Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁶Palila Software, Reno, NV, ⁷Unviersity of Washington, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: National U.S. data on breakthrough COVID-19 infection in people with autoimmune or inflammatory rheumatic diseases (AIRD) are limited. Our objective was to assess whether breakthrough COVID-19 infections were increased post-COVID-19-vaccination…
Abstract Number: L06 • ACR Convergence 2021
Comparative Safety of Gout “Treat-to-target” and “Usual Care” Treatment Strategies on Cardiovascular Outcomes Using Observational Data: Causal Inference Approach
Kazuki Yoshida, Jun Liu, Daniel Solomon, Robert J Glynn and Seoyoung Kim, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Rheumatology societies recommend serum-urate (SU)-driven treat-to-target (TTT) strategies for the management of gout. However, cardiovascular (CV) safety of urate-lowering therapy (ULT) has been questioned.…
Abstract Number: 0493 • ACR Convergence 2021
Hospitalization for SLE Flare Has Reduced over Two Decades in the United States: A Longitudinal Population-based Study
Ehizogie Edigin¹, Precious Eseaton², Chinenye Osuorji³, Nneka Chukwu⁴, Oluyemisi Amoda⁵, Kolade Olabode⁶ and Augustine Manadan⁷, ¹Internal Medicine, John H Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL, ²University of Benin, Benin, Nigeria, ³Internal Medicine, Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, Las Cruces, NM, ⁴Nuvance Health Internal Medicine Residency, Poughkeepsie, NY, ⁵Internal Medicine, Brookdale University hospital and medical center, New York, NY, ⁶College of Public Health, Kent State University, Kent, OH, ⁷Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: Longitudinal data are limited on SLE flare hospitalizations. This study aims to study longitudinal trends of SLE flare hospitalizations in the last 2 decades…
Abstract Number: 0495 • ACR Convergence 2021
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Multimorbidity Between Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Comparators in a Large Nationwide US Study
Ali Duarte-Garcia¹, Herbert Heien¹, Nilay Shah¹ and Cynthia Crowson², ¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Eyota, MN
Background/Purpose: Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have an increased burden of multimorbidity. Racial/ethnic disparities have also been associated with an increased burden of multimorbidity.…
Abstract Number: 0561 • ACR Convergence 2021
Enhancing the Identification of Rheumatoid Arthritis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease in Electronic Health Records Through Text Mining of Computerized Tomography Reports
Brent Luedders¹, Brendan Cope², Matt Devries², W. Scott Campbell², James Campbell², Ted Mikuls³, Jeffrey Curtis⁴, Daniel Hershberger³ and Bryant England³, ¹University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, United Kingdom, ²University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, ³University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁴Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is an extraarticular manifestation of RA that leads to increased morbidity and mortality. Algorithms incorporating multiple diagnostic and procedure codes…
Abstract Number: 0562 • ACR Convergence 2021
Inpatient Epidemiology and Resource Utilization of Ankylosing Spondylitis: National Inpatient Sample 2018
Patompong Ungprasert¹, Thanat Chaikijurajai², Karn Wijarnpreecha³ and Paul Kroner³, ¹Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Heights, OH, ²Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ³Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL
Background/Purpose: Little is known about inpatient epidemiology, economic burden and resource utilization of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). The current study aims to describe those…

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