Abstracts tagged "pain and socioeconomic status"

Abstract Number: 102 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
Association Of Area-Level Socioeconomic Status With Pain and Function At Presentation For Total Knee Arthroplasty
Candace H. Feldman¹, Yan Dong², Jeffrey N. Katz³, Laurel Donnell-Fink⁴ and Elena Losina², ¹Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Rheumatology and Orthopedics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Prior studies suggest that individuals with lower socioeconomic status (SES) both under-utilize joint replacement procedures and present with increased pain and poorer function. Area-level…
Abstract Number: 1096 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012
Lower Income Paradoxically Associated with Better Patient-Reported Outcomes After Knee Arthroplasty in the U.S
Jasvinder A. Singh¹ and David Lewallen², ¹Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, ²Orthopedics, Mayo Clinic college of medicine, Rochester
Background/Purpose: To assess whether income is associated with patient-reported outcomes (PROs) after primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA).Methods: We used the prospectively collected data from…