Abstracts tagged "Outcome measures"

Abstract Number: 0737 • ACR Convergence 2021
Enhanced Arthrocentesis of the Flexed Knee with Pneumatic Compression
Sumir Brahmbhatt¹, Ahsan Iqbal¹, Fatemeh Farshami², Maheswari Muruganandam³, Jaren Trost⁴, David Cisneros⁵, Adnan Kiani³, N. Suzanne Emil³, Sharon Nunez¹, William Hayward⁶, Philip Band⁷ and Wilmer Sibbitt³, ¹UNM, Albuquerque, NM, ²University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, MD, ³University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, ⁴Optum, Albuquerque, NM, ⁵University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, ⁶New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM, ⁷NYU SOM, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: To explore an alternative to standard extended knee arthrocentesis using pneumatic compression of the flexed knee.Methods: Using a paired sample design, 41 consecutive effusive…
Abstract Number: 0877 • ACR Convergence 2021
Association of HCQ Blood Levels with Type 1 and 2 SLE Activity
Kai Sun¹, Amanda Eudy², Jennifer Rogers¹, Lisa Criscione-Schreiber¹, Rebecca Sadun², Jayanth Doss², Kelley Brady³, Roberta Alexander³, John Conklin³, Rory Bloch³ and Megan Clowse⁴, ¹Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, ²Duke University, Durham, NC, ³Exagen Inc., Vista, CA, ⁴Duke University, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: HCQ levels reflect adherence and have been shown to correlate with SLE outcomes. However, HCQ levels have not been studied in the context of…
Abstract Number: 1299 • ACR Convergence 2021
Longitudinal Patterns of Response to Standard of Care Therapy for Lupus Nephritis: Data from the Accelerating Medicines Partnership Lupus Network
Peter Izmirly¹, Maria Dall'Era², Kenneth Kalunian³, Kristina Deonaraine¹, Mimi Kim⁴, Philip Carlucci¹, Jessica Li⁵, Andrea Fava⁵, H. Michael Belmont⁶, Chaim Putterman⁷, Jennifer Anolik⁸, Betty Diamond⁹, David Wofsy¹⁰, Diane Kamen¹¹, Judith James¹², Accelerating Medicines Partership (AMP) RA/SLE Network¹³, Deepak Rao¹⁴, The Accelerating Medicines Partnership in SLE Network¹⁵, Michelle Petri¹⁶, Jill Buyon⁶ and Richard Furie¹⁷, ¹New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, ²University of California San Francisco, Corte Madera, CA, ³UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ⁴Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Larchmont, NY, ⁵Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁶NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁷Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ⁸University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, ⁹Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, ¹⁰University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ¹¹Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ¹²Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Everett, MA, ¹⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹⁵Multiple Institutions, Multiple Cities, ¹⁶Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ¹⁷Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Great Neck, NY
Background/Purpose: The Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) Lupus Network was established with the goal of applying novel technologies to the interrogation of blood and tissue samples…
Abstract Number: 1933 • ACR Convergence 2021
Association Between Race/Ethnicity and COVID-19 Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) in United States Patients: Data from the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance
Manuel Ugarte-Gil¹, Graciela Alarcn², Andrea Seet³, Zara Izadi³, Ali Duarte-Garcia⁴, Emily Gilbert⁵, Maria Valenzuela-Almada⁶, Leanna Wise⁷, Jeffrey Sparks⁸, Tiffany Hsu⁹, Kristin D'Silva¹⁰, Naomi Patel¹⁰, Emily Sirotich¹¹, Jean Liew¹², Jonathan Hausmann¹³, Paul Sufka¹⁴, Rebecca Grainger¹⁵, Suleman Bhana¹⁶, Wendy Costello¹⁷, Zachary Wallace¹⁸, Lindsay Jacobsohn¹⁹, Anja Strangfeld²⁰, Elsa Frazão Mateus²¹, Kimme Hyrich²², Laure Gossec²³, Loreto Carmona²⁴, Saskia Lawson-Tovey²², Lianne Kearsley-Fleet²⁵, Martin Schaefer²⁶, Pedro Machado²⁷, Philip Robinson²⁸, Milena Gianfrancesco³ and Jinoos Yazdany³, ¹Hospital Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, Essalud/Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁵Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁷LAC+USC/Keck Medicine of USC, Pasadena, CA, ⁸Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Jamaica Plain, MA, ¹⁰Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹¹McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ¹²Boston University, Boston, MA, ¹³Boston Children's Hospital / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Cambridge, MA, ¹⁴HealthPartners, Eagan, MN, ¹⁵University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand, ¹⁶Crystal Run Health, Montvale, NJ, ¹⁷Irish Children's Arthritis Network, Bansha, Ireland, ¹⁸Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton, MA, ¹⁹University of California San Francisco, Antioch, CA, ²⁰Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ²¹Liga Portuguesa Contra as Doenças Reumáticas (LPCDR), Lisbon, Portugal, ²²University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ²³Sorbonne Université; APHP, Rheumatology Department, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France, ²⁴Instituto de Salud Musculoesqueltica (InMusc), Madrid, Spain, ²⁵Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ²⁶German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ²⁷Centre for Rheumatology & Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ²⁸Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Herston, Australia
Background/Purpose: Hispanic and African American race/ethnicities have been associated with poor COVID-19 outcomes in the general population and in rheumatic disease patients within the COVID-19…
Abstract Number: 0401 • ACR Convergence 2021
Item Reduction for the Assessment of Systemic Sclerosis-associated RAynaud’s Phenomenon (ASRAP) Questionnaire Using Data from the International Multicentre ASRAP Validation Study
John Pauling¹, Lan Yu², Christopher Denton³, Tracy Frech⁴, Ariane Herrick⁵, Laura Hummers⁶, Lesley Ann Saketkoo⁷, Ami Shah⁸, Dinesh Khanna⁹ and Robyn Domsic², ¹Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, United Kingdom, ²University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ³University College London Division of Medicine, Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, London, United Kingdom, ⁴University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁵University of Manchester, Salford, United Kingdom, ⁶Johns Hopkins Univerisity, Baltimore, MD, ⁷University Medical Center - Comprehensive Pulmonary Hypertension Center, New Orleans, LA, ⁸Johns Hopkins Rheumatology, Baltimore, MD, ⁹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Background/Purpose: The Assessment of Systemic sclerosis-associated RAynaud’s Phenomenon (ASRAP) questionnaire is a novel patient-reported outcome (PRO) instrument devised to assess the severity and impact of…
Abstract Number: 0739 • ACR Convergence 2021
Contextual Factors Should Complete the Assessment of Functioning in Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA)
Uta Kiltz¹, Eerik Ahomaa², Björn Buehring¹, Xenofon Baraliakos¹, David Kiefer¹, Jaclyn-Dalisay Leicht¹ and Jürgen Braun¹, ¹Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Herne, Germany, ²St. Franziskus-Hospital, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Cologne, Germany
Background/Purpose: Functioning of axSpA patients (pat.) is influenced by many factors, but how contextual factors influence functioning isn’t well studied. According to the International Classification…
Abstract Number: 0925 • ACR Convergence 2021
Impact of Achieving ASDAS LDA on Disease Activity and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Among Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis Treated with Biologic DMARDs
Philip Mease¹, Robert McLean², Taylor Blachley², Maya Marchese², Laura Anatale-Tardiff³, Christopher Saffore⁴, Danny Quach⁵, Ana Biljan⁶ and Alexis Ogdie⁷, ¹Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²CorEvitas, LLC, Waltham, MA, ³CorEvitas, Waltham, MA, ⁴AbbVie, North Chicago, IL, ⁵AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL, ⁶Abbvie Inc., Chicago, IL, ⁷University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Although Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Score (ASDAS) low disease activity (LDA) is a common treatment target for disease control when managing AS, real-world research…
Abstract Number: 1344 • ACR Convergence 2021
Impact of Achieving Minimal Disease Activity on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures and Disease Activity Among Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis Treated with Biologic and Targeted Synthetic DMARDs
Alexis Ogdie¹, Robert McLean², Maya Marchese², Taylor Blachley², Laura Anatale-Tardiff³, Christopher Saffore⁴, Kevin Douglas⁵, Danny Quach⁵ and Philip Mease⁶, ¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²CorEvitas, LLC, Waltham, MA, ³CorEvitas, Waltham, MA, ⁴AbbVie, North Chicago, IL, ⁵AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL, ⁶Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health and University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Minimal disease activity (MDA) is a common goal for disease control when managing PsA. The aim of this study was to assess the association…
Abstract Number: 0402 • ACR Convergence 2021
What Is the Patient’s Perspective on Symptoms Experience in Limited Cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis?
Alain Lescoat¹, Susan Murphy², Yen Chen³, Nadia Vann¹, David Cella⁴ and Dinesh Khanna³, ¹Michigan Scleroderma Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²University of Michigan, Grosse Ile, MI, ³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁴Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: Limited cutaneous SSc (lcSSc) affects approximately 60-70% of SSc patients but drug development and therapeutic research has largely focused on the more severe diffuse…
Abstract Number: 0751 • ACR Convergence 2021
Are Current Patient Reported Outcomes Instruments Optimized to Capture the Entire Patient Experience?
Philip Mease¹, Vibeke Strand², Dan Furst³, Evan Siegel⁴, Melissa Mcilraith⁵, Elaine Husni⁶ and M. Cameron Hay⁷, ¹Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Stanford University School of Medicine, Portola Valley, CA, ³University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Arthritis and Rheumatism Associates, Potomac, MD, ⁵M.Mc. Consulting, Dallas, TX, ⁶Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ⁷Miami University (Ohio), Oxford, OH
Background/Purpose: Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) affects multiple attributes of patient health; to assess treatment effectiveness a compilation of Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) have been utilized. While…
Abstract Number: 1026 • ACR Convergence 2021
Factors Impacting Likelihood of Discontinuing Immunosuppression in Adult Dermatomyositis: A Single-Center Study
Sung Kyung Cho¹, Lorinda Chung² and David Fiorentino³, ¹University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, ²Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ³Stanford University, Redwood City, CA
Background/Purpose: Dermatomyositis (DM) is a chronic idiopathic inflammatory myopathy with variable clinical course, but little is known regarding factors associated with remission of disease. We…
Abstract Number: 1410 • ACR Convergence 2021
Predictors of Relapse in Giant-Cell Arteritis: A Retrospective Single Center Analysis
Kathleena D'Anna¹, David Lim², Lorena Salto¹ and Mehrnaz Hojjati¹, ¹Loma Linda University Health, Loma Linda, CA, ²Loma Linda University Health, Redlands, CA
Background/Purpose: Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) is the most common systemic vasculitis in North America, typically affecting Caucasian female adults over 50 years of age. Flares…
Abstract Number: 0441 • ACR Convergence 2021
A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Study of Arimoclomol in Patients with Inclusion Body Myositis
Pedro Machado¹, Richard Barohn², Michael McDermott³, Thomas Blaetter⁴, Tom Lloyd⁵, Aziz Shaibani⁶, Miriam Freimer⁷, Anthony Amato⁸, Emma Ciafaloni³, Sarah Jones⁹, Tahseen Mozaffar¹⁰, Summer Gibson¹¹, Matthew Wicklund¹², Todd Levine¹³, Claus Sundgreen⁴, Tim Carstensen⁴, Karen Bonefeld⁴, Anders Jørgensen⁴, Karina Phonekeo⁴, Andrew Heim¹⁴, Laura Herbelin¹⁴, Michael Hanna¹⁵ and Mazen Dimachkie¹⁴, ¹Centre for Rheumatology & Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ²University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia, MO, ³University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, ⁴Orphazyme A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁵Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁶Nerve and Musle Center, Houston, TX, ⁷Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ⁸Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, ¹⁰University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, ¹¹University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ¹²University of Colorado, Denver, CO, ¹³Phoenix Neurological Associates, Phoenix, AZ, ¹⁴University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, ¹⁵University College London, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Inclusion body myositis (IBM) is the most common idiopathic inflammatory myopathy occurring in patients over the age of 45 years. Since immune suppression has…
Abstract Number: 0756 • ACR Convergence 2021
Validation of Two Simple Patient-centered Outcome Measures for Virtual Monitoring of Patients with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myositis
R Naveen¹, Darpan R Thakare², Vikas Agarwal², Rohit Aggarwal³ and Latika Gupta¹, ¹Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India, ²Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India, ³University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: Changing landscape of patient care from in-person to virtual telemedicine-based consultation in times of a global pandemic has necessitated a wider use of patient-centered…
Abstract Number: 1154 • ACR Convergence 2021
What Do Patients Know About Biosimilars and How Satisfied Are They with the Educational Process? – A Systematic Comparison Between Rheumatologists and Nurse Specialists, Including Effects of Multiswitching
Sabina Gall, Uta Kiltz, Tanja Kobylinski, Ioana Andreica, Kristina Vaupel, Xenofon Baraliakos and Jürgen Braun, Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Herne, Germany
Background/Purpose: The market share of biosimilars (bsDMARDs) is steadily growing, not only in rheumatologic care. Although data on efficacy, efficiency and safety have been generated…

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