Abstracts tagged "Health care cost"

Abstract Number: 136 • 2023 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Incidence and Disease Burden of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis After Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions in the COVID-19 Era: A Nationwide Observational Study in Korea
Je Hee Shin¹, Jung Yoon Pyo², Minkyung Han³, Myeongjee Lee³, Sung Min Lim¹, Jee Yeon Baek¹, Ji Young Lee¹, Ji-Man Kang¹, InKyung Jung³ and Jong Gyun Ahn¹, ¹Severance Children's Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ³Department of Biomedical Systems Informatics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Background/Purpose: Several countries have implemented non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We investigated the impact of NPIs on the incidence of…
Abstract Number: 305 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Naming Is Everything! the Cost of Inappropriate “Lupus Panel” Testing
Caleb Anderson¹, Roger Stitt ² and Robert O'Brian ¹, ¹Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, ²US Army, Ft Eustis
Background/Purpose: Greater emphasis has been placed on cost saving measures due to ballooning healthcare cost in the U.S. ACGME now evaluates trainee ability to practice…
Abstract Number: 647 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Is ANA-status at Disease Inception Associated with Long-term Damage Accrual and Direct and Indirect Health Care Costs in the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) Inception Cohort?
May Choi¹, Megan Barber ², Marvin Fritzler ¹, John G Hanly ³, Murray Urowitz ⁴, Yvan St-Pierre ⁵, Juanita Romero-Diaz ⁶, Caroline Gordon ⁷, Sang-Cheol Bae ⁸, Sasha Bernatsky ⁹, Daniel J Wallace ¹⁰, David A Isenberg ¹¹, Anisur Rahman ¹², Ellen M Ginzler ¹³, Michelle Petri ¹⁴, Ian Bruce ¹⁵, Paul Fortin ¹⁶, Dafna Gladman ¹⁷, Jorge Sanchez-Guerrero ¹⁸, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman ¹⁹, Munther A Khamashta ²⁰, Cynthia Aranow ²¹, Meggan Mackay ²², Graciela Alarcón ²³, Susan Manzi ²⁴, Ola Nived ²⁵, Andreas Jönsen ²⁵, Asad Zoma ²⁶, Ronald van Vollenhoven ²⁷, Manuel Ramos-Casals ²⁸, Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza ²⁹, S Sam Lim ³⁰, Kenneth C Kalunian ³¹, Murat Inanc ³², Diane Kamen ³³, Christine Peschken ³⁴, Soren Jacobsen ³⁵, Anca Askanase ³⁶, Vernon Farewell ³⁷ and Ann E Clarke ³⁸, ¹Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ²University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, ³Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ⁴University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁶Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador, Zubiran Vasco de Quiroga, Mexico City, Mexico, ⁷University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁸Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ⁹Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ¹⁰Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, Beverly Hills, CA, ¹¹Centre for Rheumatology, London, United Kingdom, ¹²University College London, London, United Kingdom, ¹³State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, ¹⁴Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ¹⁵University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Manchester, England, United Kingdom, ¹⁶Division de Rhumatologie, Département de Médecine, CHU de Québec – Université Laval, Axe maladies infectieuses et inflammatoires, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec – Université Laval, Canada, Quebec, QC, Canada, ¹⁷University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁸Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²⁰King's College London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom, ²¹Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ²²Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, New York, ²³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, ²⁴Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburg, PA, ²⁵Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ²⁶Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride, United Kingdom, ²⁷Amsterdam Rheumatology and Immunology Center ARC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²⁸Josep Font Autoimmune Diseases Laboratory, Barcelona, Spain, ²⁹Autoimmune Diseases Unit, Hospital Universitario Cruces, Barakaldo, Spain, Barakaldo, Spain, ³⁰Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ³¹UC San Diego School of Medicine, LaJolla, CA, ³²Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, ³³Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA., Charleston, SC, ³⁴University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, ³⁵Copenhagen Lupus and Vasculitis Clinic, Copenhagen, Denmark, ³⁶Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ³⁷University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ³⁸University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Background/Purpose: We reported that 7.7% (88/1137) of patients in an international inception cohort were ANA-negative at enrolment (Arthritis Care Res 2018 doi:1002/acr23712). There are no…
Abstract Number: 1801 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Comparison of Infection-Related Hospitalization Risk and Cost in TNFi-Experienced Medicare Beneficiaries with Rheumatoid Arthritis Treated with Abatacept or Other Targeted Disease-Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs
Vardhaman Patel¹, Zulkarnain Pulungan ², Anne Shah ², Mahesh Kambhampati ², Francis Lobo ³ and Allison Petrilla ², ¹Bristol-Myers Squibb, New York City, NY, ²Avalere, washington, DC, ³Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Princeton, NJ
Background/Purpose: The risk and cost of infection-related hospitalizations in tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi)-experienced patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) receiving subsequent targeted disease-modifying antirheumatic drug…
Abstract Number: 2677 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Healthcare Resources Utilization in Giant Cell Arteritis – a Population-Based Study
Aladdin Mohammad¹, Aleksandra Turkiewicz ², Pavlos Stamatis ¹, Carl Turesson ³, Martin Englund ² and Ali Kiadaliri ², ¹Lund University, Lund, Skane Lan, Sweden, ²Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ³Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
Background/Purpose: To study the healthcare resource utilization (HRU) in patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA) compared with the background population in southern Sweden.Methods: The study…
Abstract Number: 2889 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
From a Potential Solution to Part of the Problem: Analysis of Spending and Price Trends for Brand-Name and Generic Colchicine and Other Gout Medications
Natalie McCormick¹, Zachary Wallace ², Chio Yokose ³, April Jorge ³, Chana Sacks ⁴, John Hsu ⁵ and Hyon K. Choi ³, ¹Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Department of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital; Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Gout affects >4 million US adults aged ≥ 65 years, but little is known about the scale and drivers of public spending on gout…
Abstract Number: 1264 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Modeling the Costs and Outcomes Associated with Treatment Sequences, with and without Tofacitinib, for Moderately to Severely Active Psoriatic Arthritis in the US
George Bungey¹, Stacey Chang-Douglass¹, Ming-Ann Hsu², Joseph C Cappelleri², Pamela Young³ and John Woolcott³, ¹Decision Resources Group, London, United Kingdom, ²Pfizer Inc, Groton, CT, ³Pfizer Inc, Collegeville, PA
Background/Purpose: Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) is a chronic progressive inflammatory condition associated with significant direct and indirect costs. Tofacitinib is an oral Janus kinase inhibitor for…
Abstract Number: 2595 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Golimumab Improves Socio- and Health Economic Parameters in Patients with RA, Psa and As: Real World-Data from a Non-Interventional Clinical Study in Germany
Klaus Krüger¹, Gerd R. Burmester², Siegfried Wassenberg³, Valeria Biermann⁴ and Matthias H. Thomas⁵, ¹Medical Centre of Rheumatology, Munich, Germany, ²Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ³Rheumazentrum Ratingen, Ratingen, Germany, ⁴Lehrstuhl für Gesundheitsmanagement, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany, ⁵Medical Affairs, MSD Sharp & Dohme GmbH, Haar, Germany
Background/Purpose: Golimumab (GLM) has shown its efficacy and safety in various clinical trials. Data from socio- and health economic parameters and costs in daily clinical…
Abstract Number: 2724 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Variable Response to Induction Therapy and Significant Burden of Treatment Adverse Events over the First 12 Months in Incident ANCA-Associated Vasculitis (AAV) Patients – a Study of Routine Clinical Practice in the EU
Peter Rutherford¹, Dieter Goette¹, Melinda Stamm² and Xierong Liu², ¹Medical Affairs, Vifor Pharma, Zurich, Switzerland, ²Elma Research, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Aims of therapy in incident AAV patients include ensuring rapid diagnosis, assessment of comorbidity, disease activity, and vasculitis damage before commencing treatment with a…
Abstract Number: 859 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Using Online Simulation of Pediatric Musculoskeletal Cases to Evaluate How Knowledge of Costs Affects Diagnostic Workup
Allison Yip¹, Simrat Morris², Marc Buchner³ and Angela Robinson⁴, ¹School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, ²Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital / Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, ³School of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, ⁴Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: With rapid rise in healthcare costs, there is increased emphasis to teach cost-conscious care in graduate medical education. Our objective was to develop online…
Abstract Number: 196 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Patient Assistance Program Outcomes in a Community Clinic Setting
Stephanie Cerritos¹, Yanira Ruiz-Perdomo¹, Natalie Tobar¹, Ann Biehl² and James D. Katz³, ¹National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²Department of Pharmacy, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD, ³National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease (NIAMS), Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Uninsured rheumatic disease patients are at risk for inadequate treatment due to issues with access to care, such as medication costs that average at…
Abstract Number: 199 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Incremental Direct Medical Costs of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients in the Years Preceding Diagnosis and the Impact of Sex: A General Population-Based Study
Natalie McCormick^1,2, Carlo Marra³ and J. Antonio Avina-Zubieta⁴, ¹Arthritis Research Canada, Richmond, BC, Canada, ²Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Little is known about the healthcare costs of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients in the years leading up to SLE diagnosis. We estimated the…
Abstract Number: 1030 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Healthcare Service Utilization and Costs of Certolizumab Pegol Versus Infliximab Treatment in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Joseph Tkacz¹, Edward Lee², Robert Low², Jeffrey Stark², Mohamed Yassine² and Brenna Brady¹, ¹Health Analytics LLC, Columbia, MD, ²UCB Pharma, Smyrna, GA
Background/Purpose: Prior retrospective claims analyses examining rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment costs have shown infliximab (IFX) to be costlier than certolizumab pegol (CZP) across all sites…
Abstract Number: 1043 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Comparison of the Costs for Hyaluronic Acid and Total Knee Arthroplasty in the Treatment of OA for the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Patient Population
Kevin Ong¹, Faizan Niazi², Edmund Lau³, Peter Shaw² and Steven Kurtz¹, ¹Exponent, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, ²Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Parsippany, NJ, ³Exponent, Inc., Menlo Park, CA
Background/Purpose: Previous HA studies have focused on the Medicare population, but less is known of the treatment patterns and cost of HA relative to knee…
Abstract Number: 1049 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Heart Rate Variability Testing with Autonomic Nervous System Optimization: Could It Change the Course of Spending for Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients in the U.S.? an Exploratory Minimal Model Analysis
Marita Zimmermann¹, Elisabeth Vodicka², Andrew J Holman^3,4,5 and Louis P Garrison², ¹Constants in Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Consultants in Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ³Rheumatology, Pacific Rheumatology Associates Inc PS, Seattle, WA, ⁴Inmedix, Normandy Park, WA, ⁵Pacific Rheumatology Reseach, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Autonomic nervous system (ANS) testing with heart rate variability (HRV) has been shown to predict 52-week anti-TNF therapeutic outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis (RA).1 HRV…

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