Abstracts tagged "assessment and outcomes"

Abstract Number: 426 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Exploring the DAS: What Is the Level of Agreement in the Classification of Remission and Low Disease Activity (LDA) Among the Various Versions of the Disease Activity Score (DAS) and Their Correlation? an Analysis from a Prospective, Observational Registry
WG Bensen¹, Edward Keystone², Philip Baer³, Jude Rodrigues⁴, J. Antonio Avina-Zubieta⁵, Wojciech Olszynski⁶, Denis Choquette⁷, Suneil Kapur⁸, Manisha Mulgund⁹, John S. Sampalis¹⁰, Emmanouil Rampakakis¹⁰, Francois Nantel¹¹, Allen J Lehman¹², May Shawi¹¹ and Susan Otawa¹², ¹St Josephs Hospital and McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ²Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Private Practice, Scarborough, ON, Canada, ⁴Clinical Research and Arthritis Centre, Windsor, ON, Canada, ⁵Rheumatology, Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, Richmond, BC, Canada, ⁶University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, ⁷Rheumatology, Institut de rhumatologie de Montréal (IRM), Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁸Rheumatology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ⁹Private Practice, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ¹⁰JSS Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada, ¹¹Janssen Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹²Medical Affairs, Janssen Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Two versions of DAS28 are available, DAS28-4 comprising 4 variables [tender and swollen joint counts, acute phase reactant (APR), and patient global assessment] and…