Abstracts tagged "Outcome measures"

Abstract Number: 0516 • ACR Convergence 2022
Identifying Current Assessment and Treatment Strategies in Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis: An International Effort to Improve Patient Outcomes
Natalia Vasquez Canizares¹, Clare Pain², Marinka Twilt³, Amra Adrovic Yildiz⁴, Simone Appenzeller⁵, Edoardo Marrani⁶, Emanuela Del Giudice⁷, Antonella Petaccia⁸, Francesca Tirelli⁹, Gabriele Simonini¹⁰, Marco Cattalini¹¹, Ozgur Kasapcopur¹², Raju Khubchandani¹³, Kathryn Torok¹⁴, Betul Sozeri¹⁵, Biagio Castaldi¹⁶, Katherine Clarke¹⁷, Phuoc Duong¹⁷, Aybuke Gunalp¹⁸, meiping lu¹⁹, Hanna Lythgoe², Amanda Robinson¹⁴, Lauren Robinson²⁰, Paulo Rogerio Julio²¹, Susan Shenoi²², Emily Willis²³, Mustafa Çakan¹⁵, Valentina Leone²⁴, Rongjun Zheng¹⁹, Phillip Lawrence¹⁷, Franziska Rosser²⁵, Sarah Mayell², Lusine Ambartsumyan²⁶, Aurelia Minuti²⁷, Francesco Zulian²⁸ and Suzanne Li²⁹, ¹Children's Hospital at Montefiore/ Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, ²Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ³Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁴School of Medicine, KOC University, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵Unicamp, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁶AOU Meyer, Florence, Italy, ⁷Sapienza University of Rome, Pediatric and Neonatology Unit, Maternal and Child Department, Rome, Italy, ⁸Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy, ⁹Women's and Child's Health, University Hospital of Padova, Padova, Italy, ¹⁰Meyer Children's Hospital, Florence, Italy, ¹¹Pediatric Clinic, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy, ¹²Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Cerrahpaşa Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey, ¹³SRCC Children's Hospital, Mumbai, India, ¹⁴Pediatric Rheumatology, Children's Hospital of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ¹⁵University of Health Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey, ¹⁶Women's and Child's Health, University Hospital of Padova, Padua, Italy, ¹⁷Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ¹⁸Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey, ¹⁹Children’s Hospital of Zhejiang University Medical School, Zhejiang, China, ²⁰Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²¹University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, ²²Seattle Children's Hospital and Research Center / University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²³Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom, ²⁴Ismett, UPMC, Palermo, Italy, ²⁵University of Pittsburgh, Children’s Hospital of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ²⁶Seattle Children's Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²⁷D. Samuel Gottesman Library Research and Education, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ²⁸University of Padua, Padua, Italy, ²⁹Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital, West Orange, NJ
Background/Purpose: Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis (jSSc) is an autoimmune and fibrosing disease associated with significant morbidity and mortality risk. Data on treatment is limited and based…
Abstract Number: 1027 • ACR Convergence 2022
Low Dose Computed Tomography Hounsfield Units: A Reliable Methodology for Assessing Changes in Vertebral Bone Density in Radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis
Mary Lucy Marques¹, Nuno Pereira da Silva², Désirée van der Heijde³, Monique Reijnierse⁴, Juergen Braun⁵, Xenofon Baraliakos⁶, floris van Gaalen⁴ and Sofia Ramiro⁴, ¹Leiden University Medical Center, Coimbra, Portugal, ²Radiology Department, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, ³Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁴Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁵Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, Germany, ⁶Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Herne, Germany
Background/Purpose: In radiographic axial Spondyloarthritis (r-axSpA), low dose Computed Tomography (ldCT) Hounsfield Units (HU) were shown to cross-sectionally reliably assess bone density at each vertebra…
Abstract Number: 1350 • ACR Convergence 2022
A Prospective Study on Pain Associated with Injection of Needles: PAIN Study
Chay Bae¹, Eugenia Chen¹ and Maida Wong², ¹Rheumatology, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA, ²Rheumatology, VA Long Beach Healthcare System, Long Beach, CA
Background/Purpose: Joint pain is a common issue amongst patients. In the appropriate clinical setting, joint injections or aspirations may benefit the patient. Pain, however, is…
Abstract Number: 1635 • ACR Convergence 2022
Safety Profile of Hydroxychloroquine in a Large Cohort of Rheumatology Patients Within the US Department of Defense Military Healthcare System
Toni Rush¹, Rachel Robbins², Angelique Collamer² and Jess Edison³, ¹Health Research Tx, Trevose, PA, ²Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, ³Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences / National Capital Consortium- Walter Reed Bethesda, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a well-established conventional synthetic DMARD for many rheumatologic conditions. While generally believed to be safe, HCQ use is associated with a…
Abstract Number: 2018 • ACR Convergence 2022
Five Year Follow-up of Systemic Disease Activity Measured with the ESSDAI in a Standard of Care Cohort of Patients with Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome
Liseth de Wolff¹, Suzanne Arends², Alja Stel³, Greetje van Zuiden³, Jolien van Nimwegen², Arjan Vissink⁴, Frans Kroese², Gwenny Verstappen² and Hendrika Bootsma², ¹UMCG, Zwolle, Netherlands, ²University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ³University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ⁴University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: The EULAR Sjögren's Syndrome Disease Activity Index (ESSDAI) is often used as primary endpoint in randomised clinical trials (RCTs) in patients with primary Sjögren's…
Abstract Number: 2238 • ACR Convergence 2022
Performance of the 2016 ACR/EULAR Myositis Response Criteria in Adult Dermatomyositis and Polymyositis Therapeutic Trials and Consensus Profiles
Didem Saygin¹, Hanna Kim², Christian Douglas³, Brian Erman³, Jesse Wilkerson³, john mcgrath³, Chester Oddis⁴, Ingrid Lundberg⁵, Anthony Amato⁶, Ignacio Garcia-De La Torre⁷, Hector Chinoy⁸, David Fiorentino⁹, Lorinda Chung⁹, Yeong-Wook Song¹⁰, Katalin Danko¹¹, Frederick Miller¹², Nicola Ruperto¹³, Jiří Vencovský¹⁴, Rohit Aggarwal¹⁵ and Lisa G Rider¹², ¹University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences; Juvenile Myositis Therapeutic and Translation Studies Unit, PTRB, NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ³Social and Scientific Systems, Inc., Durham, NC, ⁴University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁵Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁶Harvard University, Boston, MA, ⁷Centro de Est. de Inv. Bas. y Clinica, S.C., Guadalajara, Mexico, ⁸The University of Manchester, Sale, United Kingdom, ⁹Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ¹⁰Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ¹¹*Deceased, Debrecen, Hungary, ¹²Environmental Autoimmunity Group, Clinical Research Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ¹³IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini; PRINTO, Clinica Pediatrica e Reumatologia, Genova, Italy, ¹⁴Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ¹⁵Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: The ACR/EULAR myositis response criteria (MRC) were developed as a composite continuous measure (Total Improvement Score (TIS)) using absolute percent changes (abs%) in 6…
Abstract Number: 0231 • ACR Convergence 2022
Primary Care Physician’s Perspective and Needs on Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Diagnosis: REUCARE Program for Early Referral
Camille Bourgeois¹, Jorge Olmedo Galindo², Juan Molina¹, Gema Fernandez-Plana², Julia Martinez-Barrio¹, Javier Rivera³ and Isabel Castrejon⁴, ¹Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, ²Gerencia Asistencial Atención Primaria, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ³Department of Rheumatology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, ⁴Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: Primary care physicians (PCPs) play a crucial role in early recognition and rapid referral of patients with inflammatory arthritis to improve early management and…
Abstract Number: 0550 • ACR Convergence 2022
Improving the Accuracy of Automated Gout Flare Ascertainment Using Natural Language Processing of Medical Records and Linked Medicare Claims Data for Real-world Comparative Effectiveness Research
Kazuki Yoshida, Tianrun Cai, Lily G Bessette, Erin Kim, Su Been Lee, Luke E Zabotka, Alec Sun, Julianna M. Mastrorilli, Theresa A. Oduol, Jun Liu, Daniel Solomon, Katherine Liao and Seoyoung Kim, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Gout flares are challenging to study using large real-world data because flares are episodic with varying severity and clinical manifestations. Furthermore, there is no…
Abstract Number: 1028 • ACR Convergence 2022
How Does PsAID Implementation Affect Treatment Intensification and Patient Satisfaction in PsA?
Conor Coyle¹, Caroline Whately-Smith², Melanie Brooke³, Uta Kiltz⁴, Ennio Lubrano⁵, Ruben Queiro⁶, David Trigos⁷, Jan Brandt-Juergens⁸, Salvatore D'Angelo⁹, Andrea Delle Sedie¹⁰, Emmanuelle Dernis¹¹, Philip Helliwell¹², Pauline Ho¹³, Axel Hueber¹⁴, BEATRIZ E. JOVEN¹⁵, Michaela Koehm¹⁶, Carlos Montilla¹⁷, Jon Packham¹⁸, JOSE PINTO TASENDE¹⁹, Felipe Julio Ramirez Garcia²⁰, Adeline Ruyssen-Witrand²¹, Rossana Scrivo²², sarah twigg²³, Martin Welcker²⁴, Theo Wirth²⁵, Laure Gossec²⁶ and Laura Coates²⁷, ¹Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom, ²Whately-Smith Ltd, Kings Langley, United Kingdom, ³Bath Institute for Rheumatic Disease, Bath, United Kingdom, ⁴Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, Germany, ⁵Academic Rheumatology Unit, Dipartimento di Medicina e Scienze della Salute ‘‘Vincenzo Tiberio’’, Università degli Studi del Molise, Campobasso, Italy, ⁶Faculty of Medicine, Rheumatology Service & the Principality of Asturias Institute for Health Research (ISPA), Universidad de Oviedo, Oveido, Spain, ⁷Patient partner, Oveido, Spain, ⁸Rheumatologische Schwerpunktpraxis, Berlin, Germany, ⁹Rheumatology Department of Lucania - San Carlo Hospital of Potenza, Potenza, Italy, ¹⁰University of Pisa, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ¹¹LE MANS general hospital, LE MANS, France, ¹²Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ¹³The Kellgren Centre for Rheumatology, Manchester, United Kingdom, ¹⁴Paracelsus University Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, ¹⁵Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁶Rheumatology Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, ¹⁷Complejo asistencial Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, ¹⁸University of Nottingham, Stafford, United Kingdom, ¹⁹SERGAS, A Coruña, Spain, ²⁰Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain, ²¹CHU de Toulouse, Toulouse, France, ²²Rheumatology Unit, Department of Clinical Internal, Anesthesiological and Cardiovascular Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, Roma, Rome, Italy, ²³Bradford Teaching hospitals NHS foundation trust, Bradford, United Kingdom, ²⁴GBR, Planegg, Germany, ²⁵Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France, ²⁶Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, ²⁷Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a heterogenous, multi-dimensional disease. Little is known about factors underpinning treatment intensification in routine practice. Treatment pathways are not well…
Abstract Number: 1362 • ACR Convergence 2022
Validation of the 2016 ACR/EULAR Myositis Response Criteria in Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM) Clinical Trials and Consensus Profiles
Hanna Kim¹, Didem Saygin², Christian Douglas³, john mcgrath³, Jesse Wilkerson³, angela Pistorio⁴, Ann Reed⁵, Chester Oddis⁶, Frederick Miller⁷, Jiří Vencovský⁸, Nicola Ruperto⁹, Rohit Aggarwal¹⁰ and Lisa G Rider⁷, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences; Juvenile Myositis Therapeutic and Translation Studies Unit, PTRB, NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ²University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ³Social and Scientific Systems, Inc., Durham, NC, ⁴IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy, ⁵Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, ⁶University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁷Environmental Autoimmunity Group, Clinical Research Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ⁸Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁹IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini; PRINTO, Clinica Pediatrica e Reumatologia, Genova, Italy, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) ACR-EULAR myositis response criteria (MRC) were developed based on absolute % changes in 6 core set measures (CSM) differentially weighted to…
Abstract Number: 1642 • ACR Convergence 2022
Mast Cells May Explain Sex Differences in Osteoarthritis Pain
Bella Mehta¹, Edward DiCarlo², Fei Wang³, Miguel Otero⁴, Eun Kyung Song⁵, Peter Sculco², Mark Figgie², Susan Goodman², William Robinson⁵ and Dana Orange⁶, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ³Weil Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, ⁴Hospital for Special Surgery Research Institute, New York, NY, ⁵Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, ⁶The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Women are at increased risk for knee osteoarthritis(OA) and report more severe pain than men at the time of total knee arthroplasty. It has…
Abstract Number: 2040 • ACR Convergence 2022
Metformin Improves Objective Measures of Dry Eyes and Focus Score in Sjögren′s Disease: A Retrospective Observational Study
Astrid Rasmussen¹, R. Hal Scofield², Kiely Grundahl¹, Lida Radfar², Christopher Lessard¹ and A. Darise Farris¹, ¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: Metformin (dimethyl biguanide, Met) is a widely used, first-line antidiabetic drug with AMPK-dependent anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects. In vitro studies and human trials in…
Abstract Number: 2246 • ACR Convergence 2022
Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient Discordance with Provider Treatment Goals Is Associated with Poorer RA Outcomes
Kelly O'Neill¹, Pamela Sinicrope², Cynthia Crowson³, Kathryne Marks⁴, Rachel Giblon⁵, Elena Myasoedova² and John Davis², ¹Rheumatoid Patient Foundation, Winter Springs, FL, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Mayo Clinic, Eyota, MN, ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: We previously reported on themes in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients' treatment goals which associated with aspects of rheumatology care such as presence of a…
Abstract Number: 0260 • ACR Convergence 2022
Impacts of Poor Prognostic Factors in Rheumatoid Arthritis on Clinical Outcomes and Treatment Choices from an Observational Cohort of Korean Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
You-Jung Ha¹, Seunghwan Shin², SE RIM CHOI³, Eun Ha Kang¹ and Yun Jong Lee¹, ¹Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea, ²Lunit Inc, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ³Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Background/Purpose: The primary target for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is achieving remission or low disease activity with proper use of DMARD. Besides controlling…
Abstract Number: 0634 • ACR Convergence 2022
Total Interstitial Inflammation Predicts Chronic Kidney Disease Progression in Patients with Lupus Nephritis
Minh Dien Duong¹, Shudan Wang², Daniel Schwartz³, Wenzhu B. Mowrey⁴, Anna Broder⁵ and Beatrice Goilav⁶, ¹The Children's Hospital of Montefiore / Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ²Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, ³Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ⁴Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ⁵Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ, ⁶Children's Hospital of Montefiore / Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Background/Purpose: Kidney biopsy is a gold standard for diagnosis and prognostication of lupus nephritis (LN). While interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy (IFTA) predict progression to…

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