ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 697 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Jessica Walsh1, Jianwei Leng2, Brian Breviu3, Daniel Clegg4, Tao He2 and Brian Sauer5, 1Division of Rheumatology, Salt Lake City Veteran Affairs and University of Utah Medical Centers, Salt Lake City, UT, 2Salt Lake City Veteran Affairs and University of Utah Medical Centers, Salt Lake City, UT, 3Department of Internal Medicine, Salt Lake City Veteran Affairs and University of Utah Medical Centers, Salt Lake City, UT, 4Rheumatology, Salt Lake City Veteran Affairs and University of Utah Medical Centers, Salt Lake City, UT, 5Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Background/Purpose: Current methods for identifying people with axial spondyloarthritis (AxSpA) in large datasets are inadequate because billing codes for most types of spondyloarthrtis (SpA) do…