Abstracts tagged "alternative medicine and patient outcomes"

Abstract Number: 227 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Chinese-American Rheumatology Patients Who Use Traditional Chinese-Medicine Have Worse Patient Reported Outcomes
Kai Sun¹, Jackie Szymonifka², Henghe Tian³, Ya Ju Chang⁴, Jennifer Leng⁵ and Lisa A. Mandl⁶, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery/Weill Cornell medicine, New York, NY, ²Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ³Internal Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁴Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, NY, ⁵Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities laboratory, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, ⁶Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery/Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Chinese-Americans are a fast growing US immigrant group, and many use Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Ethnic Chinese patients also have worse outcomes in SLE…