Abstracts tagged "comparative effectiveness"

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
Anthony Cordisco¹ and Joshua Baker¹, ¹Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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: 0832 • ACR Convergence 2020
PROSARA – A Prospective, Multicenter, Noninterventional Study to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of Sarilumab for the Treatment of Active Rheumatoid Arthritis in Regular Care in Germany
Eugen Feist¹, Peer-Malte Aries², Silke Zinke³, Harald Burkhardt⁴, Inka Albrecht⁵, Oliver Bley⁵, Michael Obermeier⁶, Patrizia Sternad⁷, Martin Welcker⁷, Cornelia Kühne⁸, Ann-Dörthe Holst⁹, Niklas Thomas Baerlecken¹⁰ and Hans-Peter Tony¹¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Helios Vogelsang-Gommern, Vogelsang-Gommern, Germany, ²Rheumatologie im Struenseehaus, Hamburg, Germany, ³Outpatient Rheumatology Center Berlin-Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, ⁵Sanofi Aventis Deutschland GmbH, Berlin, Germany, ⁶GKM Gesellschaft für Therapieforschung, Munich, Germany, ⁷MVZ für Rheumatologie Dr. M. Welcker, Planegg, Germany, ⁸Outpatient practice, Haldensleben, Germany, ⁹Outpatient practice, Ludwigslust, Germany, ¹⁰Rheumatology Cologne Dr. N. Baerlecken/Dr. T. Karger, Cologne, Germany, ¹¹Rheumatology/Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Würzburg, Germany
Background/Purpose: Blockade of IL-6 signaling by sarilumab has been demonstrated to be an effective treatment approach for RA. Due to strict inclusion and exclusion criteria,…
Abstract Number: 0834 • ACR Convergence 2020
Is Disease Severity Greater Among Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Who Receive a Newly Approved Biologic? Real-world US Experience with Sarilumab from the ACR RISE Registry
Stefano Fiore¹, Lang Chen², Cassie Clinton², Huifeng Yun², Amy Praestgaard³, Kerri Ford³ and Jeffrey R Curtis², ¹Sanofi, Bridgewater, NJ, ²Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Sanofi, Cambridge, MA
Background/Purpose: Patients with RA who have received multiple biologics or targeted therapies over time tend to have more refractory and more severe disease, which may…
Abstract Number: 1005 • ACR Convergence 2020
Risk of Non-vertebral Fractures Among Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Treated with Biologic or Targeted-Synthetic DMARDs: A Multi-Database Comparative Safety Study
Ajinkya Pawar¹, Rishi Desai¹, Mengdong He¹, Lily Bessette¹ and Seoyoung Kim², ¹Brigham and Women's hospital, Boston, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) increases risk of osteoporosis and fractures. However, limited head-to-head comparative data exists on the risk of non-vertebral osteoporotic fractures (NVFs) among…
Abstract Number: 1160 • ACR Convergence 2020
Treatment Intensity and Impact on Bone Lesion Evolution and Distribution Patterns in Severe Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis
Aleksander Lenert¹, T. Shawn Sato², Sedat G Kandemirli¹, Patrick Ten Eyck¹ and Polly Ferguson³, ¹University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ²University of Iowa, Iowa City, ³University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA
Background/Purpose: To compare bone lesion evolution and bone lesion distribution patterns identified by whole body magnetic resonance imaging (WB-MRI) by treatment intensity in patients with…
Abstract Number: 1241 • ACR Convergence 2020
Patient-Reported Outcomes in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Treated with Tofacitinib or Biological DMARDs in Real Life Conditions in Two Latin America Countries
Hugo Madariaga¹, Juan Reyes², Magda Gutierrez³, Dario Ponce de Leon⁴, Tatjana Lukic⁵ and Luisa Amador², ¹Centro Medico CEEN, Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru, ²Pfizer, Bogota, Cundinamarca, Colombia, ³Pfizer, Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile, ⁴PFIZER, LIMA, Peru, ⁵Pfizer Inc, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: The objective of this study was to describe the efficacy, safety and patient reported outcomes in Latin-American patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) treated with…
Abstract Number: 1346 • ACR Convergence 2020
Predicting Major Treatment Response to Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitorsin Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis
Runsheng Wang¹, Abhijit Dasgupta² and Michael Ward³, ¹Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Division of Rheumatology, New York, NY, ²NIAMS, Bethesda, ³National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: The treatment response to tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) in patients with active ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is heterogeneous. In clinical practice, both patients and…
Abstract Number: 1351 • ACR Convergence 2020
Efficacy of Ixekizumab versus Adalimumab in Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) Patients with and Without Moderate-to-severe Psoriasis: 52-week Results from a Multicentre, Randomised Open-label Study
Lars Erik Kristensen¹, Masato Okada², William Tillett³, Soyi Liu-Leage⁴, Celine El Baou⁵, Andrew Bradley⁵, Gabriella Meszaros⁴ and Kurt de Vlam⁶, ¹The Parker Institute Copenhagen Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, Denmark, ²St. Luke's International University, Tokyo, Japan, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, ³Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, UK; Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath, Bath, UK, Bath, United Kingdom, ⁴Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, ⁵Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, USA, Indianapolis, IN, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, University of Leuven, Belgium, Leuven, Belgium
Background/Purpose: Ixekizumab (IXE), a selective interleukin-17A antagonist, is approved for the treatment of active PsA, moderate-to-severe psoriasis (PsO), and radiographic/non-radiographic axial SpA in adults. The…
Abstract Number: 1492 • ACR Convergence 2020
The Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Start Time Optimization of Biologic Therapy in Polyarticular JIA Study: Report of Primary Study Outcomes
Yukiko Kimura¹, George Tomlinson², Laura Schanberg³, Mary Ellen Riordan⁴, Anne Dennos⁵, Vincent Del Gaizo⁶, Katherine Murphy⁷, Pamela F. Weiss⁸, Brian Feldman⁹ and Sarah Ringold¹⁰, ¹Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Hackensack, NJ, ²Department of Medicine, University Hospital Network, Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ⁴Hackensack University Medical Center, Westwood, NJ, ⁵Duke University, Durham, NC, ⁶Childhood Arthritis & Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA), Whitehouse Station, NJ, ⁷Lousiana Department of Public Health, New Orleans, LA, ⁸Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, ⁹The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁰Seattle Children's, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: There is uncertainty regarding when to start biologic medications for polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (P-JIA). The Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) developed…
Abstract Number: 0010 • ACR Convergence 2020
Antirheumatic Disease Therapies in Patients with COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Michael Putman¹, Yu Pei Eugenia Chock², Herman Tam³, Alfred Kim⁴, Sebastian Sattui⁵, Francis Berenbaum⁶, Maria (Maio) Danila⁷, Peter Korsten⁸, Catalina Sanchez Alvarez⁹, Jeffrey Sparks¹⁰, Laura Coates¹¹, Candace Palmerlee¹², Andrea Pierce¹³, Arundathi Jayatilleke¹⁴, Sindhu Johnson¹⁵, Adam Kilian¹⁶, Jean Liew¹⁷, Larry Prokop⁹, Hassan Murad⁹, Rebecca Grainger¹⁸, Zachary Wallace¹⁹ and Ali Duarte-Garcia⁹, ¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Yale School of Medicine, Greenwich, CT, ³The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, ⁵Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁶Sorbonne Universit�, Paris, France, ⁷University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, AL, ⁸University Medical Center Göttingen, Gottingen, Germany, ⁹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity; Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ¹¹University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ¹²12. Patient Research Partner, Berkeley, CA, ¹³Patient Research Partner, New York City, ¹⁴Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, ¹⁵University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁶George Washington University, Washington, DC, ¹⁷University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ¹⁸University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand, ¹⁹Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: Antirheumatic disease therapies have been used to treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its complications. There has been particular interest in the antimalarial agent…
Abstract Number: 0581 • ACR Convergence 2020
A Proposed Economic Framework to Model the Consequences of Psoriatic Arthritis Disease Domains
Jacquelyn Chou¹, Ervant Maksabedian², David Collier³ and Howard Thom⁴, ¹PRECISION heor, Los Angeles, CA, ²Amgen Inc., LOS ANGELES, CA, ³Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA, ⁴University of Bristol, Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) manifests heterogeneous signs and symptoms (e.g., dactylitis, enthesitis, axial involvement, skin- and nail disease), which may respond to treatments differently. While…
Abstract Number: 0801 • ACR Convergence 2020
The Comparative Effectiveness of Abatacept versus TNF Inhibitors in Patients Who Are ACPA Positive and Have the Shared Epitope: Results from a US National Observational Study
Leslie Harrold¹, Keith Wittstock², Sheila Kelly², Xue Han², Joe Zhuo², Amy Schrader¹, Nicole Middaugh¹, Page Moore¹ and Vadim Khaychuk², ¹Corrona, LLC, Waltham, MA, ²Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Princeton, NJ
Background/Purpose: The HLA-DRB1 shared epitope (SE) is associated with joint destruction in ACPA+ patients (pts) with RA.1 In the Early AMPLE trial, among ACPA+ pts…
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)…

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