Abstracts tagged "Decision Making"

Abstract Number: 0740 • ACR Convergence 2021
Rheumatologists’ and Patients’ Mental Models for Treatment of RA Explain Low Rates of TTT
Betty Hsiao¹, Julie Downs², Mandy Lanyon², William Nowell³, SHILPA VENKATACHALAM⁴, Carole Wiedmeyer⁵, Jeffrey Curtis⁶, Susan Blalock⁷, Leslie Harrold⁸ and Liana Fraenkel⁹, ¹Yale-New Haven Medical Center, New Haven, CT, ²Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA, ³Global Healthy Living Foundation, Upper Nyack, NY, ⁴Global Healthy Living Foundation, New York, NY, ⁵Global Healthy Living Foundation, Nyack, NY, ⁶Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁷Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁸Corrona, LLC, Northborough, MA, ⁹Berkshire Medical Center, Lenox, MA
Background/Purpose: Fewer than 50% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are treated using a TTT strategy. The purpose of this study was to better understand…
Abstract Number: 1131 • ACR Convergence 2021
Interleukin 6 Concentration in Synovial Fluid and Its Clinical Significance
Ivars Veckalns and Anna Mihailova, Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia
Background/Purpose: Inflammatory arthritis (IA) treated with disease modifying antirheumatic drugs lead to secondary osteoarthritis (OA) due to inflammation, aging, and other factors. Inflammatory arthritis can…