Abstracts tagged "Model Business"

Abstract Number: 1016 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
Presenteeism Predicts Sick Leave Better Than Basdai and/Or BASFI In A Longitudinal Cohort Of Patients With Ankylosing Spondylitis (EASIC)
Thien Thi Vinh Nguyen¹, An Tran-Duy², Frank Heldmann³, Jürgen Braun³, Herbert Thijs¹ and Annelies Boonen⁴, ¹Center for Statistics, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands, ³Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, Germany, ⁴Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Sick leave (SL) is a critical socioeconomic consequence of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). This study aimed at exploring the role of presenteeism relative to BASDAI…