Health disparities and quality of care Archives

Abstract Number: 2599 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012
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 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012
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…

Abstracts tagged "Health disparities and quality of care"

Quality of Care for Medicare Recipients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Vulnerable Populations More Likely to Receive Therapy with Glucocorticoids Alone

Decisional Conflict Among Vulnerable Patient Populations with Rheumatoid Arthritis Is Associated with Limited Health Literacy and Non-English Language