Abstracts tagged "juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and statistical methods"

Abstract Number: 2290 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Comparing Effectiveness of Early Initiation of Biologic Treatment for Newly Diagnosed Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Using a Novel Statistics Causal Inference Method Applied to Observational Data
Bin Huang¹, Esi Morgan², Chen Chen², Jinzhong Liu², Michelle Adams², Timothy Beukelman³, Hermine I. Brunner⁴ and Daniel J Lovell⁵, ¹Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ²Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, ³Pediatric Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁵PRCSG, Cincinnati, OH
Background/Purpose: We compare the effectiveness of two approaches to treat Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA): early combination of biologic and non-biologic disease modifying anti rheumatic drugs…