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Abstracts tagged "quality improvement and women’s health"

  • Abstract Number: 2283 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019

    Improving Lactation Knowledge Among Providers Caring for Rheumatology Patients

    Brooke Mills1 and Bonnie Bermas 1, 1UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

    Background/Purpose: While the benefits of breastfeeding for both the mother and her infant are well established, available resources regarding medication compatibility with lactation are limited. …
  • Abstract Number: 2418 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018

    Awareness of Fertility and Contraception Issues Among Women with Rheumatologic Diseases

    Christina Payne1, Meagan Clark2, Sneha Patel3, Tanya Allawh3, Mei-An Ty-Arias2, Ashley Davis2 and Arundathi ‎ Jayatilleke ‎4, 1Rheumatology, Drexel University COM/ HUH, Philadelphia, PA, 2Drexel University COM, Philadelphia, PA, 3Internal Medicine, Drexel University COM, Philadelphia, PA, 4Rheumatology, Drexel University COM, Philadelphia, PA

    Background/Purpose: Because many autoimmune conditions preferentially affect women of childbearing age and both disease and treatment can negatively affect pregnancy outcomes, healthcare providers to women…
  • Abstract Number: 3142 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016

    Improving Counseling, Documentation and Adherence to Highly Effective Birth Control in Women on Teratogenic Medications at a Rural Medical Center: A Quality Improvement Initiative

    Sonal Bhalla1,2,3, John Mecchella1,4 and Alicia Zbehlik1,4,5, 1Rheumatology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, 2Rheumatology/ Leardership Peventive Medicine Residency, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, 3Instructor in Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, 4Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, 5Leadership Preventive Medicine/Rheumatology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH

    Background/Purpose:  Autoimmune and inflammatory diseases occur more often in women than in men, and often these women are of childbearing age. Many of the medications…
  • Abstract Number: 2505 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015

    A Fellow Led Quality Improvement Project for Improving Contraceptive Compliance in Women Receiving Teratogenic Medications

    Melissa Wells1, Victoria Lackey2, Erica Peart3, Nicholas Holdgate4, Samya Mohammad1, Stephen Balevic1, Rebecca Sadun4, Lisa G. Criscione-Schreiber5, Megan E. B. Clowse3 and Mamata Yanamadala6, 1Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2Dept of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 3Rheumatology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 4Rheumatology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 5Dept of Med/Rheum Div, Duke University, Durham, NC, 6Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC

    Background/Purpose: Women of child bearing age with autoimmune diseases are often prescribed teratogenic medications. Contraceptive compliance in this group of patients has been shown to…

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