Abstracts tagged "Outcome measures"

Abstract Number: 1667 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Patient-Reported Perceived Deficits Questionnaire in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Cautions for Use of Subscales
Lisa Engel¹, Jiandong Su¹, Emily Nalder², Yael Goverover³, Monique Gignac⁴, Carmela Tartaglia⁵, Nicole Anderson¹ and Zahi Touma¹, ¹University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Department of Occupational Therapy, New York University, New York, NY, ⁴Instititue for Work and Health, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵University of Toronto, Krembil Neurosciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Approximately 38% of adults living with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) experience cognitive impairment (CI) that can detrimentally affect employment, disease self-management, and quality of…
Abstract Number: 1704 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical SLE Disease Activity Index Score of Zero May be a More Pragmatic Outcome Measure in SLE Studies
Ioannis Parodis^1,2, Sharzad Emamikia^1,2, Iva Gunnarsson^1,2, Ronald F. van Vollenhoven^2,3 and Katerina Chatzidionysiou^1,4, ¹Rheumatology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Amsterdam Rheumatology and Immunology Center ARC, Department of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Drug development in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has been challenging. One of the reasons can be traced in the choice of outcome measures. In…
Abstract Number: 1730 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Role for Duplex Ultrasound of Hand Arteries in the Assessment of the Vasculopathy Associated to Systemic Sclerosis-like Diseases
Silvia Pérez Esteban¹, Esperanza Naredo Sánchez¹, Sheila Recuero Díaz¹, Fredeswinda I. Romero-Bueno², Gabriel Herrero-Beaumont³ and Olga Sanchez-Pernaute⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital & Health Research Institute, Madrid, Spain, ²Section for Autoimmune Diseases, Rheumatology, Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital & Health Research Institute, Madrid, Spain, ³Bone and Joint Research Unit, Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital & Health Research Institute, Madrid, Spain, ⁴Rheumatology Division. Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: Small vessel arteriopathy precedes the development of organ damage and tissue fibrosis in systemic sclerosis (SSc) and related disorders. It is currently considered that…
Abstract Number: 1878 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Immunosuppression in Diffuse Systemic Sclerosis Improves Outcomes Using a Novel Composite Response Index
Boyang Zheng¹, Mianbo Wang² and Murray Baron³, ¹Rheumatology, McGill University Health Center (MUHC), Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Rheumatology, McGill University, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Diffuse systemic sclerosis (dcSSc) is a devastating multi-organ disease where the mainstay of treatment is immunosuppression. Data on these therapies are mostly based on…
Abstract Number: 1238 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Development of the Lupus Foundation of America—Rapid Evaluation of Activity in Lupus (LFA-REAL™) Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) to Evaluate Lupus Disease Activity
Anca Askanase¹, Samantha Nguyen², Miya Okado², Nancy Leidy³ and Joan T. Merrill⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ²Rheumatology, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY, ³Evidera, Bethesda, MD, ⁴Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: The LFA REALTM is designed as two complimentary disease activity measures in order to integrate clinician and patient input. The current report updates progress…
Abstract Number: 2548 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Validation of New Potential Targets for Remission and Low Disease Activity in Psoriatic Arthritis in Patients Treated with Golimumab
Laura C Coates¹, Proton Rahman², Eliofotisti Psaradellis³, Emmanouil Rampakakis³, Brendan Osborne⁴, Allen J Lehman⁵ and Francois Nantel⁴, ¹LIRMM, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ²Rheumatology, St Claires Mercy Hospital, St Johns, NF, Canada, ³JSS Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁴Medical Affairs, Janssen Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Janssen Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Treat to target recommendations in PsA state that the target of treatment should be remission or low disease activity (LDA). So far, the only…
Abstract Number: 1293 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Indications for Cesarean Delivery in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Pregnancies
Evelyne Vinet¹, Paul R. Fortin², Stéphanie Roberge³, Emmanuel Bujold⁴ and Nils Chaillet⁵, ¹Divisions of Rheymatology and Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Infectious Diseases and Immunity Research Division, CHU de Québec-Université Laval Research Center, Québec, QC, Canada, ³Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada, ⁴Reproduction, mother and youth health, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université Laval (CHUL), Québec, QC, Canada, ⁵Département d’obstétrique et gynécologie et département de Médecine de famille et médecine d’urgence, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Pregnant SLE women are at increased risk of cesarean delivery compared to pregnant women from the general population. Yet, to date, no one has…
Abstract Number: 2550 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A New and Simpler Tool for Global Psoriatic Arthritis Assessment: Simplified Composite Psoriatic Disease Activity Index (sCPDAI)
Maria Laura Acosta Felquer¹, Musaab Elmamoun², Agnes Szentpetery^3,4, Phil Gallagher⁵, Oliver FitzGerald⁶ and Enrique R. Soriano⁷, ¹Rheumatology Unit, Internal Medicine Service, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, and Fundacion PM Catoggio, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²Rheumatology, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin 4, Ireland, ³Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ⁴Bone & Joint Unit, Department of Rheumatology, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ⁵St. Vincent's University Hospital, Department of Rheumatology, Dublin, Ireland, ⁶St. Vincent's University Hospital, Department of Rheumatology. UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ⁷Rheumatology Unit, Internal Mecine Service, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Background/Purpose: The heterogeneity of psoriatic arthritis ( PsA) that includes a possible combination of axial disease, peripheral arthritis, enthesitis, dactylitis, skin and nail involvement, makes…
Abstract Number: 1356 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Is ACPA-Positive RA Still a More Severe Disease Than ACPA-Negative RA? a Longitudinal Cohort Study in RA-Patients Treated from 2000 Onwards
Aleid C. Boer¹, Annelies Boonen² and Annette H.M. van der Helm-van Mil³, ¹Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Maastricht, Netherlands, ³Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Anti-citrullinated-protein antibodies (ACPA)-positive rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is considered as more severe than ACPA-negative RA, because of its association with joint destruction. Clinically relevant joint…
Abstract Number: 2781 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Assessing RA Disease Activity with Promis Measures Using Smartphone Technology
Huifeng Yun¹, Shuo Yang², W. Benjamin Nowell³, Cooper Filby¹, Lang Chen¹ and Jeffrey R. Curtis⁴, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Division of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Global Healthy Living Foundation, Upper Nyack, NY, ⁴Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Health information technology has enabled efficient measurement of PROs using Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) methods, which have been shown to minimize missing data and…
Abstract Number: 1384 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Physician Global Assessments for Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis Are All over the Map!
Matthew Turk¹ and Janet E. Pope², ¹Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ²Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Western Ontario, St Joseph's Health Care, London, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Assessments of disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) determine the course of treatment. Physician global assessments of disease activity (MD globals) are important outcomes…
Abstract Number: 1511 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Real-Life Performance of the ASAS Health Index in Routine Care of Patients with Spondyloarthritis
Uta Kiltz, Thomas Wiatr, Xenofon Baraliakos, Kirill Fedorov and Jürgen Braun, Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, Germany
Background/Purpose: The ASAS Health Index (ASAS HI) have been developed to measure health and impairment in functioning in patients with spondyloarthritis (SpA). Its measurement properties…
Abstract Number: 1556 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Efficacy of Biologics and New Anti-Inflammatory Agents Used in the Treatment of Active Psoriatic Arthritis: Systematic Literature Review and Network Meta-Analysis of the Evidence.
Mahdi Gharaibeh¹, Yingxin Xu², Joseph Lee³, Madhura Chitnis² and David Collier⁴, ¹Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, ²Evidera, Bethesda, MD, ³videra, Bethesda, MD, ⁴Amgen, Inc, Terni, Italy
Background/Purpose: Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is an inflammatory arthritis associated with psoriasis. Biologics are usually the first-line FDA-approved disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) treatment; however, no published…
Abstract Number: 1627 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Changes in Heart Rate Variability Reflect Changes in Clinical Status and Patient Reported Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Longitudinal Analysis
Aikaterini Thanou¹, Stavros Stavrakis², Justin Reynolds³, Stan Kamp¹, Paul Kamp¹, Judith A. James⁴ and Joan T. Merrill⁵, ¹Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Ok, OK, ³University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁴Arthritis & Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁵Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: We have previously observed associations between systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) disease activity and heart rate variability (HRV) between 2 time points (1). We aim…
Abstract Number: 1676 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Improving Sensitivity to Change of the Modified Rodnan Skin Score over Time
Annel M. Fernandez¹, Robert F. Spiera², Jackie Szymonifka² and Jessica K. Gordon², ¹Medicine- Rheumatology/ Research, Hospital For Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: The Modified Rodnan Skin Score (MRSS) assesses global dermal thickness through the examination of 17 body areas scored by clinical palpation using a 4…

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