Abstracts tagged "Quality Indicators"

Abstract Number: 1090 • ACR Convergence 2023
Improved Patient and Team Satisfaction and Pharmacy Outcomes After Implementing a Rheumatology Clinical Pharmacist in a Large Academic Medical Center
Shelby Gomez¹, Trisha Ludwig¹, Katherine Hartkopf², Sancia Ferguson³, Lori Zemlicka⁴, Mindy Jones⁵ and Christie M. Bartels⁶, ¹UW Health Pharmacy, Madison, WI, ²Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ³University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ⁴UW Health, Madison, WI, ⁵Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ⁶University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
Background/Purpose: We embedded a clinical pharmacist into our university rheumatology clinics beginning in June 2022 to improve patient experience and reduce provider burden based on…
Abstract Number: 1897 • ACR Convergence 2023
In Pursuit of Excellence: Improving Systemic Sclerosis Quality of Care
Aos Aboabat¹, Samar Aboulenain¹, Zareen Ahmad², Medha Soowamber³ and Sindhu Johnson⁴, ¹University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Toronto Scleroderma Program, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Toronto Scleroderma Program, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Woodbridge, ON, Canada, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Schroeder Arthritis Institute, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western and Mount Sinai Hospitals; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a complex autoimmune disease with significant morbidity and mortality. Quality indicators (QIs) for SSc care, previously published, are essential tools…
Abstract Number: 1899 • ACR Convergence 2023
Healthy People with Lupus 2030: Goals to Improve the Quality of Care and Health of All People with Lupus in the United States
Jinoos Yazdany¹, April Jorge², Claire Barber³, April Barnado⁴, Bonnie Bermas⁵, Ali Duarte-Garcia⁶, Amy Bennett⁷, Candace Feldman⁸, Shivani Garg⁹, Leah Haseley¹⁰, Shraddha Jatwani¹¹, Tracy Johansson¹², Alex Limanni¹³, Wambui Machua¹⁴, Wendy Rodgers¹⁵, Brad Rovin¹⁶, Yesenia Santiago-Casas¹⁷, Lisa Suter¹⁸, JoAnn Zell¹⁹, Patti Katz²⁰ and Christie M. Bartels²¹, ¹University of California, General Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, San Francisco, CA, ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ³University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁴Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ⁵UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, ⁶Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁷ACR, Atlanta, GA, ⁸Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁹Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ¹⁰University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ¹¹Dignity Health-MMG Rheumatology, East Norriton, PA, ¹²American College of Rheumatology, Atlanta, GA, ¹³Self, Dallas, TX, ¹⁴Piedmont Healthcare, Atlanta, GA, ¹⁵Lupus Foundation of America, Los Angeles, CA, ¹⁶Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ¹⁷Guillermo Valenzuela MD PA, Plantation, FL, ¹⁸Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ¹⁹University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO, ²⁰University of California San Francisco, San Rafael, CA, ²¹University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
Background/Purpose: Collaborating with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the ACR has developed new quality measures for lupus clinical care, including clinical and…
Abstract Number: 1908 • ACR Convergence 2023
Clinic Protocol Boosts Blood Pressure Confirmatory Readings and Accuracy in an Academic Medical Center
Kubra Bugdayli¹, Amber Meyer¹, Antoinette Keith¹, Karunakar Dirisala¹, Guillermo Quiceno¹ and Puneet Bajaj², ¹University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: Hypertension is the most common modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular diseases among all adults. Studies have shown that single blood pressure (BP) measurements vary…
Abstract Number: 111 • 2023 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Monitoring for Hypogammaglobulinemia After B-Cell Therapy in an Academic Pediatric Center
Omar Mostafa, Sharon Bout-Tabaku, Buthaina Al-Adba, Ahmad Kaddourah, Abubakr Imam, Ibrahim Shatat and Mohammed Yousuf Karim, Sidra Medicine, Ar-Rayyan, Qatar
Background/Purpose: Hypogammaglobulinemia is an under-recognized complication of B-cell targeted therapies (BCTT) in both autoimmune diseases (AID) and malignancy. Hypogammaglobulinemia may be transient or persistent, and…
Abstract Number: 131 • 2023 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Improving Methotrexate Documentation in Electronic Health Records – a Quality Improvement Initiative
Jayne MacMahon¹, Jeanine McColl², Alaa Al-Shehab¹, Deborah Levy³, Ronald laxer¹ and Shirley Tse¹, ¹University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ³The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Prescribing methotrexate,is common practice in rheumatology. Appropriate medication counselling and documentation is important. In our province, as per thephysician regulatory body the College of…
Abstract Number: 132 • 2023 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Quality Improvement Lessons in a New Practice
Farah Shaya, Sharon Bout-Tabaku and Buthaina Al-Adba, Sidra Medicine, Ar-Rayyan, Qatar
Background/Purpose: Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) have better disease outcomes with current medications available, yet there is variability in these outcomes. Quality improvement (QI)…
Abstract Number: 1298 • ACR Convergence 2022
Pediatric Rheumatology Care and Outcomes Improvement Network Demonstrates Outcome Improvement for Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Catherine Bingham¹, Julia Harris², Sheetal Vora³, Mileka Gilbert⁴, Cagri Yildirim-Toruner⁵, Kerry Ferraro⁶, Tingting Qiu⁷, Jon Burnham⁸, Michelle Batthish⁹, Beth Gottlieb¹⁰, Daniel Lovell⁷, Ronald Laxer¹¹, Tzielan Lee¹², Danielle Bullock¹³, Charles H Spencer¹⁴, Jennifer Weiss¹⁵, Melissa Hazen¹⁶, Edward Oberle¹⁷, Melissa Mannion¹⁸, Nancy Pan¹⁹, Michael Shishov²⁰, Danielle Fair²¹, Mary Toth²², Kendra Wiegand⁷ and Esi Morgan²³, ¹Penn State Children's Hospital, Hershey, PA, ²Children's Mercy Kansas City, Overland Park, KS, ³Atrium Health Levine Children's, Charlotte, NC, ⁴Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁵Texas Children's Hospital/ Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ⁶Pediatric Rheumatology Care and Outcomes Improvement Network, Philadelphia, ⁷Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁸Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ⁹McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ¹⁰Cohen Children's Medical Center, Lake Success, NY, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children; Child Health Evaluative Services, SickKids Research Institute; Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹²Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, ¹³University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ¹⁴Division of Rheumatology, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, MS, ¹⁵Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ, ¹⁶Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹⁷Division of Rheumatology, Nationwide Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ¹⁸University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ¹⁹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²⁰Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ, ²¹Medical College of Wisconsin/Children's Wisconsin, Wauwatosa, WI, ²²Nemours Foundation, Orlando, FL, ²³Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Pediatric Rheumatology Care and Outcomes Improvement Network (PR-COIN) is a Learning Health Network designed to improve outcomes of care for children with juvenile idiopathic…
Abstract Number: 1299 • ACR Convergence 2022
Hitting the Target Together: Supporting Shared Decision-Making with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) Patients Followed in the Out-Patient Rheumatology Setting at the Hospital for Sick Children
Jo-Anne Marcuz¹, Brian Feldman², Y. Ingrid Goh³, Niina Kim⁴, Piya Lahiry⁵, Deborah Levy², Elizaveta Limenis⁶, Jeanine McColl⁷, Christine O'Brien⁸, Susan Paetkau⁴, Shirley Tse², Kristi Whitney⁸ and Ronald Laxer², ¹Division of Rheumatology and Department of Rehabilitation, The Hospital for Sick Children; University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children; Child Health Evaluative Services, SickKids Research Institute; Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children; Child Health Evaluative Services, SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children; Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children; Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children; University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸Division of Rheumatology and Department of Rehabilitation, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) is the most common chronic rheumatic disease in children with significant morbidity that extends into adulthood. Despite advances in effective…
Abstract Number: 1315 • ACR Convergence 2022
Building Stronger Bones: Optimizing Osteoporosis Screening at a Primary Care Clinic
Rebecca Pietro¹, Shu Min Lao¹ and Geeta Varghese², ¹Mount Sinai Morningside West, New York, NY, ²Ryan Chelsea Clinton Clinic, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Osteoporosis is a silent disease characterized by low bone mass and deterioration of bone quality, affecting 25% of women.1 The United States Preventive Services…
Abstract Number: 2202 • ACR Convergence 2022
Association of Visit-based Retention and Receipt of Serologic Testing with Acute Care Use Among Young Adults with Lupus: A Medicare Cohort Study
Maria Schletzbaum¹, Brad C. Astor², W. Ryan Powell³, Shivani Garg⁴, Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi⁵, Joseph A. Kramer⁶, Amy J. Kind⁷ and Christie Bartels⁸, ¹University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Population Health Sciences, Middleton, WI, ²University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Medicine, Nephrology Division and Department of Population Sciences, Madison, WI, ³University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Center for Health Disparities Research, Thousand Oaks, CA, ⁴University of Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ⁵University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Emergency Medicine; and the Center for Health Disparities Research, Madison, WI, ⁶University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Medicine & Center for Health Disparities Research,, Madison, WI, ⁷University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Medicine, Geriatrics Division & Center for Health Disparities Research, Madison, WI, ⁸University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
Background/Purpose: While high quality lupus care is associated with less damage, the impact of care use patterns and care quality on lupus outcomes remains unclear,…
Abstract Number: 0065 • ACR Convergence 2022
Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Care Pathway Implementation: A Step Towards Improved Outcomes and Value-Based Care
Tarun Sharma¹, paul lebovitz¹, chetan rajput², Lori Mcaninch³, ellen Kraemer³, izabela Stanescu³, adam dore¹, joseph ahearn³ and Susan Manzi⁴, ¹Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Highmark Health, Pittsburgh, ³Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, ⁴Allegheny Health Network, Lupus Center of Excellence, Wexford, PA
Background/Purpose: Care transformation in a chronic illness like RA requires delivery of health care services through a patient-centric care model. Within an integrated delivery and…
Abstract Number: 0572 • ACR Convergence 2022
ACR Workgroup to Develop Recommendations for PRO Use in Clinical Care for SLE
Patricia Katz¹, Claire Barber², Ali Duarte-Garcia³, Shivani Garg⁴, Wambui Machua⁵, Yesenia Santiago-Casas⁶, Wendy Rodgers⁷, Lisa Suter⁸, Jennifer Ude⁹, Tracy Johansson⁹, Christie Bartels¹⁰ and Jinoos Yazdany¹¹, ¹UCSF, San Rafael, CA, ²University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ³Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁴University of Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ⁵Piedmont Physicians, Rheumatology, Atlanta, GA, ⁶Integral Rheumatology and Immunology Specialists, Plantation, FL, ⁷Lupus Foundation of America, Torrance, CA, ⁸Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ⁹American College of Rheumatology, Atlanta, GA, ¹⁰University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ¹¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures are not consistently used in clinical settings for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). As part of a Centers for…
Abstract Number: 1267 • ACR Convergence 2022
Accuracy of Financial Disclosures in American-Based Rheumatology Journals
Mary Guan¹, Michael Pillinger² and Aryeh Abeles³, ¹New York University Grossman School of Medicine, Brooklyn, NY, ²NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, ³New York University Grossman School of Medicine, Wallingford, CT
Background/Purpose: Prior studies demonstrated that authors of publications may not accurately disclose their financial relationships with industry. One recent study reported that among authors of…
Abstract Number: 1273 • ACR Convergence 2022
Development of ACR Longitudinal Digital Quality Measures for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Data Availability and Preliminary Measure Performance in the RISE Registry
April Jorge¹, Alfredo Aguirre², April Barnado³, Bonnie Bermas⁴, Candace Feldman⁵, Shraddha Jatwani⁶, Alex Limanni⁷, JoAnn Zell⁸, Claire Barber⁹, Ali Duarte-Garcia¹⁰, Shivani Garg¹¹, Jing Li², Gabriela Schmajuk¹², Jinoos Yazdany¹³ and Christie Bartels¹⁴, ¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ⁴UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁶Albert Einstein Medical Center, Ambler, PA, ⁷Self, Dallas, TX, ⁸University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO, ⁹University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ¹⁰Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ¹¹University of Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ¹²UCSF / SFVA, San Francisco, CA, ¹³UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ¹⁴University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
Background/Purpose: Digital quality measures can facilitate monitoring and improvement of health care quality on a population level. As part of a CDC-funded ACR initiative to…

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