Abstracts tagged "Measurement Instrument"

Abstract Number: 1226 • ACR Convergence 2021
The Neuro-QOL Upper Extremity Function Scale: New Opportunities to More Reliably and Precisely Measure Self-reported Hand Function and Self-care Activities in People with RA
Susan Bartlett¹, Orit Schieir², Marie-France Valois¹, Janet Pope³, Gilles Boire⁴, Edward Keystone⁵, Diane Tin⁶, Carter Thorne⁷, Carol Hitchon⁸, Louis Bessette⁹, Glen Hazlewood¹⁰, Vivian Bykerk¹¹ and CATCH Investigators¹², ¹McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²Canadian Early Arthritis Cohort Study, Montréal, QC, Canada, ³University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ⁴Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, ⁵Keystone Consulting Enterprises Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶The Arthritis Program Research Group, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ⁷Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ⁸University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ⁹Centre de l'Ostoporose et de Rhumatologie de Qubec, Québec City, QC, Canada, ¹⁰University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ¹¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ¹²Canadian Early Arthritis Cohort Investigators, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: RA is an inflammatory disease that results in pain and loss of function, especially in the hands and wrists. Brief self-assessment tools that can…
Abstract Number: 1731 • ACR Convergence 2021
Construction and Validation of a Reproductive Health Questionnaire for Women with Rheumatic Diseases
Abraham Yair Lujano-Negrete¹, Luz Ferandanda Gutierrez-Leal², Luis Gerardo Espinosa-Banuelos³, Cassandra Michele Skinner-Taylor¹, Lorena Perez-Barbosa⁴, Ingris Peláez-Ballestas⁵, Eugenio Salvador Barriga-Maldonado⁶, Martha Cecilia Rodriguez-Ruiz¹, Sofía Jezzini-Martínez¹, Selene Maribel Delgado-Ayala¹, Jesus Cardenas-de La Garza⁴ and Dionicio Galarza-Delgado⁴, ¹Hospital Universitario Dr. José Eleuterio González, Monterrey, Mexico, ²Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico, ³Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Dr. Jose Eleuterio Gonzalez, UANL, Monterrey, Mexico, ⁴Hospital Universitario "Dr Jose E. Gonzalez", Monterrey, Mexico, ⁵Hospital General de Mexico "Dr. Eduardo Liceaga", Mexico, Mexico, ⁶Hopsital Universitario Dr. José Eleuterio González, Monterrey, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs) commonly affect women of childbearing age. Active maternal disease in the months prior to conception increases the risk of flares…
Abstract Number: 1893 • ACR Convergence 2021
“From Where I Stand”: Using Multiple Anchors Yields Different Benchmarks for Meaningful Improvement and Worsening in the Rheumatoid Arthritis Flare Questionnaire (RA-FQ)
Susan Bartlett¹, Vivian Bykerk², Orit Schieir³, Marie-France Valois¹, Louis Bessette⁴, Gilles Boire⁵, Glen Hazlewood⁶, Carol Hitchon⁷, Edward Keystone⁸, Janet Pope⁹, Diane Tin¹⁰, Carter Thorne¹¹, Clifton Bingham¹² and CATCH Investigators¹³, ¹McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ³Canadian Early Arthritis Cohort Study, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁴Centre de l'Ostoporose et de Rhumatologie de Qubec, Québec City, QC, Canada, ⁵Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, ⁶University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁷University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ⁸Keystone Consulting Enterprises Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁹University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ¹⁰The Arthritis Program Research Group, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ¹¹Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ¹²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ¹³Canadian Early Arthritis Cohort Investigators, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: The RA-FQ is a patient-reported measure of current disease activity in RA that can be used to identify disease flares. The RA-FQ queries pain,…
Abstract Number: 0176 • ACR Convergence 2021
Semi-quantitative Chest Computed Tomography (CT) Analysis in Pediatric Rheumatologic (PR) Patients with Diffuse Lung Disease
Michal Cidon¹, Terry Robinson², Beverley Newman³, Paul Iskander², Paul Thacker⁴, Evan Zucker³, Brian Bartholmai⁴, Dnyanesh Tipre², Tzielan Lee⁵, Rajdeep Pooni⁶ and Rex Moats², ¹Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ²Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ³Stanford Children's Health, Stanford, ⁴Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁵Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, ⁶Stanford Children's Health, Palo Alto, CA
Background/Purpose: Spiral chest CT (SCT) is commonly used to evaluate subclinical lung disease in pediatric rheumatology. However, there are no validated scoring tools to objectively…
Abstract Number: 0251 • ACR Convergence 2021
A Comparative Study of the Validity of the DAS28-ESR and JADAS-27 Disease Activity Assessment Indexes for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in Transition and Adults
Takako Miyamae¹, Eiichi Tanaka¹, Eisuke Inoue², Katsunori Ikari¹ and Masayoshi Harigai³, ¹Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, ²Showa University, Tokyo, Japan, ³Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: The 2020 Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare Research Group recommends the JADAS27 as a measure of…
Abstract Number: 0322 • ACR Convergence 2020
Development and Preliminary Validation of Smartphone Sensor-based Measurement Tools for Psoriatic Arthritis
Dan Webster¹, Rebecca Haberman², Lourdes Perez-Chada³, Stockard Simon⁴, Woody MacDuffie⁴, Michael DePhillips⁵, Soumya Reddy⁶, Alexis Ogdie⁷, Lara Mangravite⁴, Joseph Merola⁸ and Jose Scher², ¹Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, WA, ²NYU School of Medicine, New York City, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, ⁵SDP Digital, Seattle, ⁶NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁷University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁸Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has increasingly driven clinical care into remote settings, where patients with immune-mediated and inflammatory diseases struggle to convey symptom severity to…
Abstract Number: 0427 • ACR Convergence 2020
Validation of Physician Global Assessment as an Outcome Measure in Relapsing Polychondritis
Emily Rose¹, Marcela Ferrada¹, Kaitlin Quinn², Wendy Goodspeed¹, Laurent Arnaud³ and Peter C. Grayson⁴, ¹Systemic Autoimmunity Branch, Vasculitis Translational Research Program, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, BETHESDA, MD, ²Systemic Autoimmunity Branch, National Institutes of Health, NIAMS, Washington, DC, ³Department of rheumatology, University Hospitals of Strasbourg and French National Reference Center for Rare Auto-immune diseases, Strasbourg, Alsace, France, ⁴Systemic Autoimmunity Branch, National Institutes of Health, NIAMS, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare systemic inflammatory disorder of cartilage that lacks validated disease activity measures. Physician global assessment (PhGA) is a measure…
Abstract Number: 1129 • ACR Convergence 2020
Discordance in Patient and Physician Assessment of Disease Activity in Relapsing Polychondritis
Emily Rose¹, Marcela Ferrada¹, Kaitlin Quinn², Wendy Goodspeed¹, Laurent Arnaud³ and Peter C. Grayson⁴, ¹Systemic Autoimmunity Branch, Vasculitis Translational Research Program, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²Systemic Autoimmunity Branch, National Institutes of Health, NIAMS, Washington, DC, ³Department of rheumatology, University Hospitals of Strasbourg and French National Reference Center for Rare Auto-immune diseases, Strasbourg, Alsace, France, ⁴Systemic Autoimmunity Branch, National Institutes of Health, NIAMS, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare chronic disabling inflammatory condition primarily affecting cartilage tissue. Self-reported patient outcome measures, which have not been evaluated in…
Abstract Number: 1168 • ACR Convergence 2020
Reliability and Validity of a New Skin Activity Measure for Localized Scleroderma
Suzanne Li¹, Mara Becker², Sandy Hong³, Polly Ferguson⁴, Themba Nyrienda¹, Tracy Andrews⁵, Katie Stewart⁶, C. Egla Rabinovich⁷, Robert Fuhlbrigge⁸, Thomas Mason⁹, Elena Pope¹⁰, Maria Ibarra¹¹, Fatma Dedeoglu¹², Gloria Higgins¹³, Ronald Laxer¹⁴, Marilynn Punaro⁶, Kathryn Torok¹⁵ and CARRA Investigators¹⁶, ¹Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, ²Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, ³University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital, Iowa City, IA, ⁴University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, ⁵Rutgers, Newark, ⁶UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, ⁷Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, ⁸University of Colorado, Denver, CO, ⁹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ¹⁰Hospital For Sick Kids, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹¹Children's Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, ¹²Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹³Nationwide Childrens Hospital/ The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ¹⁴The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁵University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ¹⁶CARRA, Durham
Background/Purpose: Juvenile localized scleroderma (jLS) is a chronic inflammatory and fibrosing disease. Treatment is directed towards controlling disease activity to minimize risk for functional impairment…
Abstract Number: 1263 • ACR Convergence 2020
Association of the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics Frailty Index (SLICC-FI) and Damage Accrual in Long Standing Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Kaitlin Lima¹, Alexandra Legge², John Hanly², Jungwha Lee³, Jing Song³, Anh Chung³ and Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman⁴, ¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ³Northwestern University, Chicago, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: The Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics Frailty Index (SLICC-FI) was recently shown to predict mortality and damage accrual in the SLICC inception cohort. The…
Abstract Number: 1553 • ACR Convergence 2020
Optical Tomography Can Accurately Diagnose Lupus Arthritis
Wei Tang¹, Alessandro Marone², Youngwan Kim², Tommy Chen¹, Cathy Guo¹, Leila Khalili¹, Andreas Hielscher² and Anca Askanase³, ¹Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ²Columbia University, New York, NY, ³Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Incapacitating inflammatory arthritis occurs in up to 88% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Arthritis is present in 70-80% of lupus patients in…
Abstract Number: 1595 • ACR Convergence 2020
Using Rheumatoid Arthritis Communication Tool Developed by the RISE Learning Collaborative to Promote Shared Decision-Making
Joad Eseddi¹, Puneet Bajaj², Gabriela Schmajuk³, Jinoos Yazdany⁴ and Salahuddin Kazi⁵, ¹UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, ³University of California, San Francisco, Atherton, CA, ⁴University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁵Veterans Affairs North Texas Healthcare System / UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: Patient care is moving from physician directed treatment to a co-design framework that focuses on creating a partnership between patients and physicians. This new…
Abstract Number: 1597 • ACR Convergence 2020
Use of a Clinical Dashboard Improves the Documentation of Disease Severity Scores and May Facilitate the Implementation of Treat to Target Therapy
Taylor Nelson¹, Gary Kunkel² and Grant Cannon², ¹University of Utah, Salt Lake City, ²Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) management guidelines recommend the collection of Disease Activity Measures (DAMs) to direct therapy as a component of a “treat-to-target” (T2T) strategy. …
Abstract Number: 1602 • ACR Convergence 2020
Assessing the Psychometric Properties of a Measure of Patient Empowerment with Patients with Arthritis
Erin Knight-Zhang¹, Kathleen Carluzzo¹, Karen Schifferdecker¹, Emily Creek², Rebecca Butcher¹ and Guy Eakin², ¹Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, ²Arthritis Foundation, Atlanta, GA
Background/Purpose: The Health Care Empowerment Questionnaire (HCEQ) was developed for use in a general sample of patients to measure individual empowerment in health care and…
Abstract Number: 1614 • ACR Convergence 2020
Use of a Best Practice Alert to Encourage Transition Planning and Readiness
Bernard Danna¹, Monique Maher¹, Marietta DeGuzman², Andrea Ramirez¹, Eyal Muscal², Amanda Brown², Martha Curry², Maria Pereira², M. Brad Nelson², Pooja Patel², Ugo Awa², LeeGee Huang³, Blanca Sanchez-Fournier³, JaLeen Rogers³, Ariel Coleman³, Anne Dykes³, Miriah Gillispie-Taylor² and Tiphanie Vogel⁴, ¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, ³Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, ⁴Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: Transitioning children with chronic diseases from pediatric to adult care can be challenging. Patients are faced with the emotional shock of entering a new…

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