Abstract Number: 1268 • ACR Convergence 2021
Predicting Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Comparison of Machine Learning Methods
Background/Purpose: Nearly 20% of pregnancies in patients with Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) result in an adverse pregnancy outcome (APO); early identification of women with SLE…Abstract Number: 1848 • ACR Convergence 2021
Untangling the Gut: A Phenome-Wide Association Study of Drugs and Diseases with Gastrointestinal Dysfunction in Systemic Sclerosis
Background/Purpose: Gastrointestinal dysfunction (SSc-GI) is a significant burden to patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), particularly in those with longstanding disease. The management of SSc-GI is…Abstract Number: 0324 • ACR Convergence 2021
Machine Learning: Identifying Lupus Nephritis Within Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the Real World
Background/Purpose: Around 40-70% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) develop lupus nephritis (LN). LN is often underdiagnosed and early diagnosis is crucial for reducing…Abstract Number: 0401 • ACR Convergence 2021
Item Reduction for the Assessment of Systemic Sclerosis-associated RAynaud’s Phenomenon (ASRAP) Questionnaire Using Data from the International Multicentre ASRAP Validation Study
Background/Purpose: The Assessment of Systemic sclerosis-associated RAynaud’s Phenomenon (ASRAP) questionnaire is a novel patient-reported outcome (PRO) instrument devised to assess the severity and impact of…Abstract Number: 0499 • ACR Convergence 2021
Preliminary Assessment of Internal Reliability and Construct Validity of Long and Short-form Assessment of Systemic Sclerosis-associated RAynaud’s Phenomenon (ASRAP) Questionnaires
Background/Purpose: The Assessment of Systemic sclerosis-associated RAynaud’s Phenomenon (ASRAP) questionnaire is a novel patient-reported outcome instrument devised to assess the severity and impact of SSc-RP.…Abstract Number: 0779 • ACR Convergence 2020
Antibody Responses to Epstein-Barr Virus Are Altered in the Pre-Clinical Period of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Background/Purpose: Viral infections, including infection with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), have been suggested as environmental risk factors for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). EBV infections are known to…Abstract Number: 0795 • ACR Convergence 2020
Minimum Clinically Important Improvement in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Associates with Gut Microbiome
Background/Purpose: Within the past decade, there have been several major discoveries in cross-sectional gut microbiome studies suggesting that dysbiosis of the gut microbiota is a…Abstract Number: 0806 • ACR Convergence 2020
Identification and Adjustment for Factors Associated with Clinical Response in Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Trials to Improve Comparisons of Treatment Efficacy
Background/Purpose: Numerous clinical trials have been published in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but comparing efficacies of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) is complicated by a lack of…Abstract Number: 1300 • ACR Convergence 2020
Identifying Cognitive Impairment in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Using Hidden Markov Models: A Bayesian Approach
Background/Purpose: Cognitive impairment (CI) is usually operationalized on the American College of Rheumatology Neuropsychological Battery (ACR-NB) as a z-score of ≤-1.5 on ≥2 domains or…Abstract Number: 1709 • ACR Convergence 2020
Teaching Clinical Application of Bayesian Reasoning in Rheumatology to Internal Medicine Residents and Medical Students
Background/Purpose: Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is becoming an increasingly important skill in the clinical application of diagnostic reasoning. Didactic lectures focusing on EBM concepts are a…
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