Abstracts tagged "biologic drugs and tofacitinib"

Abstract Number: 2067 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Comparison of Medication New User Definitions in Multi-Specialty EMR Data
Jeffrey Curtis¹, Lang Chen ¹, Narender Annapureddy ², Cassie Clinton ¹, Megan Clowse ³, Millie Long ⁴, W. Benjamin Nowell ⁵, Jim Oates ⁶, Rennie Rhee ⁷, Siddarth Singh ⁸, Fenglong Xie ⁹ and Timothy Beukelman ¹⁰, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, ³Duke University, Durham, ⁴University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁵Global Healthy Living Foundation, Upper Nyack, NY, ⁶Division of Rheumatology & Immunology/Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁷University of Pennsylvania, Division of Rheumatology, Philadelphia, PA, ⁸University California, San Diego, San Diego, ⁹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, ¹⁰University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: New user designs are typically preferred in pharmacoepidemiology to avoid bias. The optimal implementation of a new user design in electronic medical record (EMR)…