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Abstracts tagged "goals and objectives"

  • Abstract Number: 2767 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019

    Importance of Discussing RA Treatment Goals: Patients Report Providers Seldom Discuss Treatment Goals and Outcomes Improve When Goals Are Discussed

    Kelly O'Neill1, Cynthia Crowson 2, Dana Symons 3, Pamela Sinicrope 4, Elena Myasoedova 4, Martha Bock 4, Jon Tilburt 4 and John Davis 4, 1Rheumatoid Patient Foundation, Inc., Winter Springs, FL, 2Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, 3Rheumatoid Patient Foundation, Inc., Rockford, MI, 4Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

    Background/Purpose: Treat-to-target is a guiding principle in the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and randomized clinical trials demonstrate its value in improving outcomes. However, implementation…
  • Abstract Number: 2227 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018

    What Should be the Goals of Gout Therapy? a Patient Perspective

    Jasvinder A. Singh, Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

    Background/Purpose: In the absence of any available current evidence, our primary objective was to assess the goals of gout treatment from a patient perspective and…
  • Abstract Number: 2421 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014

    Patient Treatment Goals in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Results of Focus Groups Among Rheumatologists, English and Spanish-Speaking Patients

    Jennifer Barton1, Christopher J. Koenig2, Diana Martinez3, Gina Evans-Young4, Patricia P. Katz1 and Edward H. Yelin5, 1Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, 3UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA, 4Rheumatology, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, 5Arthritis Research Group, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

    Background/Purpose: Treatment guidelines in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) frame provider's therapeutic goal as disease remission. Although goal concordance between providers and patients has been shown to…
  • Abstract Number: 861 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013

    Many Gout Patients Treated By Rheumatologists Do Not Meet Established Treatment Goals Despite Long-Term Urate Lowering Therapy: Results Of a Gout Patient Encounter Survey

    Max I. Hamburger1, Michael H. Pillinger2, Robert Sederman3 and Gary Fernandez4, 1Rheumatology Associates, Melville, NY, 2NYU School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, New York, NY, 3C1 Consulting, LLC, Summit, NJ, 4Market Research, Savient Pharmaceuticals, Bridgewater, NJ

    Background/Purpose: In Oct 2012, the ACR published guidelines for the management of gout. These guidelines recommend pharmacologic treatment that results in a sufficient lowering of…
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