Abstracts tagged "Health Services Research"

Abstract Number: 0010 • ACR Convergence 2020
Antirheumatic Disease Therapies in Patients with COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Michael Putman¹, Yu Pei Eugenia Chock², Herman Tam³, Alfred Kim⁴, Sebastian Sattui⁵, Francis Berenbaum⁶, Maria (Maio) Danila⁷, Peter Korsten⁸, Catalina Sanchez Alvarez⁹, Jeffrey Sparks¹⁰, Laura Coates¹¹, Candace Palmerlee¹², Andrea Pierce¹³, Arundathi Jayatilleke¹⁴, Sindhu Johnson¹⁵, Adam Kilian¹⁶, Jean Liew¹⁷, Larry Prokop⁹, Hassan Murad⁹, Rebecca Grainger¹⁸, Zachary Wallace¹⁹ and Ali Duarte-Garcia⁹, ¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Yale School of Medicine, Greenwich, CT, ³The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, ⁵Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁶Sorbonne Universit�, Paris, France, ⁷University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, AL, ⁸University Medical Center Göttingen, Gottingen, Germany, ⁹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity; Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ¹¹University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ¹²12. Patient Research Partner, Berkeley, CA, ¹³Patient Research Partner, New York City, ¹⁴Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, ¹⁵University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁶George Washington University, Washington, DC, ¹⁷University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ¹⁸University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand, ¹⁹Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: Antirheumatic disease therapies have been used to treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its complications. There has been particular interest in the antimalarial agent…
Abstract Number: 0595 • ACR Convergence 2020
High Satisfaction with Tele-medicine in a New York City Clinic
Tommy Chen¹, Cathy Guo¹, Wei Tang¹, Leila Khalili¹ and Anca Askanase², ¹Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ²Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: The face of medicine is changing with the time. A twenty-first century technological revolution in medicine happened in March 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic…
Abstract Number: 1141 • ACR Convergence 2020
Reversing Seasonal Decline of T2T Outcome in RA Patients Under Double Hits by Chinese New Year and COVID-19 Epidemic via Online Interaction with SSDM
Rong Mu¹, Hongbin Li², Zhanyun Da³, Anbin Huang⁴, Hongzhi Wang⁵, Jing Lu⁶, Jianhong Wu⁷, Shengtao Zhang⁸, Yikai Yu⁹, Chun Li¹⁰, Shouxin Li⁹, Peng Ji¹¹, Hua Wei¹², Bin Wu¹³, Zhenbin Li¹⁴, Lingxun Shen¹⁵, Yanping Zhao¹⁶, Yi Zhao¹⁷, Xiaoqiang Hou¹⁸, Hui Xiao¹⁹, Yuhua Jia²⁰, Bing Wu²⁰, Yonggang Zhao²⁰, Xin Chen¹⁹, Miaomiao Song²⁰, Fei Xiao²⁰ and Zhanguo Li²¹, ¹People's Hospital, Beijing University Medical School, Beijing, Beijing, China (People's Republic), ²The Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China (People's Republic), ³The affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China (People's Republic), ⁴Union Hospital Affiliated Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, WuHan, China (People's Republic), ⁵The First Hospital of Jiaxing, Jiaxing, China (People's Republic), ⁶First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China (People's Republic), ⁷Department of Rheumatology, Dazhou Central Hospital, Dazhou, China (People's Republic), ⁸Tongji Hospital Affiliated Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China (People's Republic), ⁹Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College of HUST, Wuhan, Hubei, China (People's Republic), ¹⁰People's Hospital, Beijing University Medical School, beijing, China (People's Republic), ¹¹The first affiliated hospital of xinjiang medical university, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China (People's Republic), ¹²Northern Jiangsu People's Hospital, Yangzhou, China (People's Republic), ¹³Chongqing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, chongqing, China (People's Republic), ¹⁴Chinese people ’s liberation army joint service support force 980 hospital, shijiazhuang, Jiangxi, China (People's Republic), ¹⁵Union Hospital Affiliated Tongji Medical College of HUST, Wuhan, Hubei, China (People's Republic), ¹⁶First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China (People's Republic), ¹⁷Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Beijing, China (People's Republic), ¹⁸Yichang Central People's Hospital, Beijing, China (People's Republic), ¹⁹Shanghai Gothic Internet Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai, Shanghai, China (People's Republic), ²⁰Shanghai Gothic Internet Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China (People's Republic), ²¹Peking University People’s Hospital, Xicheng, Beijing, China (People's Republic)
Background/Purpose: Treat-to-target (T2T), achieving a DAS28 below 3.2 is the main management strategy for RA. The Chinese New Year is a long holiday started in…
Abstract Number: 0017 • ACR Convergence 2020
Impact of COVID19 on Missed/Cancelled Rheumatology Office Visits and Parenteral Immunosuppressive Medications
Daniel Watrous¹, Glenn Parris², Priya Reddy³, Jeffrey Alper⁴, Fenglong Xie⁵, Maria (Maio) Danila⁶, Michael George⁷, William Nowell⁸, Joel Kallich⁹ and Jeffrey R Curtis¹⁰, ¹Sierra Pacific Arthritis, Visalia, CA, ²PARRIS & ASSOCIATES, Lilburn, GA, ³Southwest Florida Rheumatology, Riverview, FL, ⁴Medallion Clinical Research Institute, LLC, Naples, FL, ⁵University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁶University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, AL, ⁷University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁸Global Healthy Living Foundation, New York City, NY, ⁹Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University, Boston, MA, ¹⁰Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: The global COVID19 pandemic has had a major impact on healthcare. The effect on rheumatology patients and providers is unclear, as is the role…
Abstract Number: 0596 • ACR Convergence 2020
Clinical Academic Rheumatology: A Boon for Health Systems
Kathleena D'Anna¹, Karina Torralba², Christina Downey³ and Carlos Silva Lynch⁴, ¹Loma Linda University Medical Center, Moreno Valley, CA, ²Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Redlands, CA, ³Loma Linda University Medical Center, Redlands, CA, ⁴Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda
Background/Purpose: Finding a balance between clinical and scholarly productivity is a challenge for many academic clinician-educator (CE) rheumatologists. An examination of workload and practice-generated downstream…
Abstract Number: 1142 • ACR Convergence 2020
Implementation of an Evidence-based Transition Clinic in a Pediatric Rheumatology Academic Institution
Rebecca Overbury¹, Tracy Frech², John Bohnsack³, CJ Inman¹, Sara Stern¹, Karen James¹, Erin Treemarcki⁴ and Aimee Hersh⁴, ¹University of Utah and Primary Children's Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT, ²University of Utah and Salt Lake Veterans Affair Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, ³University of Utah and Primary Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, ⁴University of Utah and Primary Children's Hospital, Salt Lake City
Background/Purpose: Transition from pediatric to adult rheumatology care is more likely to be successful if a transition program is in place. Previously successful interventions to…
Abstract Number: 0047 • ACR Convergence 2020
Administrative Barriers to Enrollment of Ethnic Minorities in Clinical Research of Rheumatic/Immune-Mediated Diseases
Brittany Banbury¹, Sharon Dowell¹, Gail Kerr², Mercedes Quinones², Ginette Okoye¹ and Ilona Jileaeva¹, ¹Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC, ²Washington DC VA Medical Center, Washington, DC
Background/Purpose: Inclusion of ethnic minority subsets in clinical research remains subpar despite mandates for increased participation. Lack of trust, cultural sensitivity and bias, stereotyping, health…
Abstract Number: 0597 • ACR Convergence 2020
Telemedicine in Pediatric Rheumatology During COVID-19: The PR-COIN Experience
Y. Ingrid Goh¹, Nancy Pan², Julia Harris³, Andrew Warmin⁴, Janalee Taylor⁴, Sheetal Vora⁵, Fatima Barbar-Smiley⁶, Jon Burnham⁷, Tzielan Lee⁸, Cagri Yildirim-Toruner⁹, Kendra Wiegand¹⁰ and Esi Morgan¹¹, ¹The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ³Children's Mercy Kansas City, Overland Park, KS, ⁴Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, ⁵Atrium Health Levine Children's Hospital, Charlotte, NC, ⁶Nationwide Children's Hospital/The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ⁷Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ⁸Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, ⁹Nationwide Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, ¹⁰Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, ¹¹Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Background/Purpose: Healthcare teams were forced to rethink the way they practiced medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many teams transitioned from conducting in-person visits to virtual…
Abstract Number: 1281 • ACR Convergence 2020
Opioid-Related Encounters as a Predictor of 30-Day Readmissions in Lupus
Christie Bartels¹, Maria Schletzbaum², Yi Chen³ and Amy Kind⁴, ¹University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Madison, WI, ²University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Population Health Sciences, Madison, WI, ³University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Madison, WI, ⁴University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Medicine, Health Services and Care Research Program, Geriatrics Division, Madison, WI
Background/Purpose: One in four Medicare hospitalizations with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) results in readmission within 30 days, with “injuries and poisonings” as the second most…
Abstract Number: 0248 • ACR Convergence 2020
Assessment of Lupus Knowledge Through Creation of the Lupus Knowledge Assessment Test (LKAT)
Mithu Maheswaranathan¹, Amanda Eudy¹, Jayanth Doss¹, Rebecca Sadun¹, Lisa Criscione-Schreiber², Kai Sun¹, Stacy Bailey³, S. Nicole Hastings¹, Megan Clowse⁴ and Jennifer Rogers⁵, ¹Duke University, Durham, NC, ²Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, ³Northwestern University, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁴Duke University, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁵Duke, Durham, NC
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an inherently complex disease to manage with heterogenous clinical manifestations and complicated medication regimens. The complexity of lupus self-management…
Abstract Number: 0599 • ACR Convergence 2020
Evaluation of Telephone Consultations in Germany as an Additional Tool in Outpatient Rheumatology Clinics During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ulrich Drott¹, Axel Braner¹, Thomas Kollewe², Harald Burkhardt³ and Florian Meier¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, Frankfurt, Germany, ²J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, FB Medizin, Frankfurter Arbeitsstelle für Medizindidaktik, Frankfurt, Germany, Frankfurt, Germany, ³Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Background/Purpose: The Covid-19 pandemic holds multiple challenges for the healthcare system. Quick adoptions and adjustments are the mainstays during these times. Hygiene management and plans…
Abstract Number: 1423 • ACR Convergence 2020
Declining In-Hospital Mortality in Vasculitis: A 17-year U.S. National Study
Jasvinder Singh¹ and John Cleveland¹, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: To our knowledge, only a few population-based studies for vasculitis mortality exist; and most are limited to vasculitis sub-types. Therefore, our study objective was…
Abstract Number: 0329 • ACR Convergence 2020
Healthcare Utilization and Costs Associated with Functional Status in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis
Alexis Ogdie¹, Mark Hwang², Phani Veeranki³, Alexandria Portelli³, Steven Sison³, Jason Shafrin³, Sofia Pedro⁴, Peter Hur⁵, Nina Kim⁶ and Kaleb Michaud⁷, ¹Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, ³PRECISIONheor, Los Angeles, ⁴FORWARD-The National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, ⁵Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, NJ, ⁶The University of Texas at Austin; Baylor Scott and White Health, Austin, TX, ⁷FORWARD-The National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases; University of Nebraska Medical Center, Wichita
Background/Purpose: The Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ-DI) has been validated and widely used in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) clinical trials for the assessment of patient…
Abstract Number: 0603 • ACR Convergence 2020
Multisite Study of the Impact of COVID-19 Era Telemedicine Expansion on Reduction in No-Show Rates
Christie Bartels¹, David Gazeley², Ann Rosenthal³, Sancia Ferguson⁴, Edmond Ramly⁵, Monica Messina⁶ and Douglas White⁷, ¹University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Madison, WI, ²Medical College of Wisconsin, Wauwatosa, WI, ³Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ⁴University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Oakland, CA, ⁵University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health;, Madison, ⁶University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Division, Madison, WI, ⁷Gundersen Health System, Onalaska, WI
Background/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic led to rapid expansion of telemedicine in all fields, including rheumatology. We hypothesized that increased use of telemedicine would reduce no-show…
Abstract Number: 1475 • ACR Convergence 2020
Predictors of Thirty-Day Hospital Readmissions in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the US: A Nationwide Study
Rayan Najjar¹, Swetha Ann Alexander², Grant Hughes¹, Jinoos Yazdany³ and Namrata Singh⁴, ¹University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, ³UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁴University of Washington, Bellevue, WA
Background/Purpose: For individuals with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), hospital readmission rate is associated with quality of care and prognosis. Our objective was to evaluate independent…