Abstracts tagged "laboratory tests and outreach"

Abstract Number: 2861 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Clinical Laboratory Telephone Communication Outreach to Rheumatology Patients Improves Guideline-Concordant Timeliness of Monitoring of Conventional and Biologic Disease-Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARDs)
Tyson Hagen¹, Bharati Bhardwaja², David Silverman³, Susan Shetterly⁴ and Marsha Raebel⁵, ¹Rheumatology, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Lafayette, CO, ²Pharmacy, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Lafayette, CO, ³Kaiser Permanente Colorado, La Fayette, CO, ⁴Institute for health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Aurora, CO, ⁵Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Aurora, CO
Background/Purpose: The American College of Rheumatology has published guidelines for laboratory monitoring of conventional DMARDs (cDMARDs). At Kaiser Permanente Colorado (KPCO), although most patients eventually…