Abstracts tagged "Health disparities and quality of care"

Abstract Number: 2599 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Quality of Care for Medicare Recipients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Vulnerable Populations More Likely to Receive Therapy with Glucocorticoids Alone
Chris Tonner¹, Gabriela Schmajuk², Amal N. Trivedi³, Grace Lin⁴ and Jinoos Yazdany⁵, ¹Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²Rheumatology, UCSF / San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, ³Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, ⁴General Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁵Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Use of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) is a nationally endorsed quality measure, yet recent studies suggest that only 60% of Medicare recipients with…
Abstract Number: 2440 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Decisional Conflict Among Vulnerable Patient Populations with Rheumatoid Arthritis Is Associated with Limited Health Literacy and Non-English Language
Laura Trupin¹, Jennifer Barton¹, Gina Evans-Young¹, John B. Imboden¹, Andrew J. Gross², Dean Schillinger³ and Edward H. Yelin⁴, ¹Rheumatology, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³Medicine and Center for Vulnerable Populations, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Arthritis Research Group, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Suboptimal communication in shared decision-making among vulnerable populations has been reported in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). National and international recommendations for quality health care highlight…

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